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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS IN PART I.
Preface, line 34, for Genealogical History read Genealogical Dic-
tionary,
Page 13, note (d), works should be ivorks.
Page 12, add, Vadi Olaffsun (/. e. Wade the son of Olaf), is mentioned
in the account of the settlement of Iceland by the Norsemen,
about A. D. 800. See the Landnamahok.
Page 26, line 23. add, William Morris in his poem Sir Peter Harp-
don's End (contained in The Defence of Guinevere and other
Poems) (1858), uses a similar comparison of bravery in the lines: —
They ought to sing of him who was as wight,
As Launcelot or Wade, and yet avail'd
Just nothing, but to fail and fail and fail.
Page 30, line 31, illusion should be allusion.
Page 31, line 17, Hovenden should be Hoveden (nowHowden), York-
shire.
Page 36, add, Atkinson's History of Cleveland, Yorkshire I, 161,
under the parish of Syche, near Whitby, says: "Standing stones
or monoliths remain standing in three or four localities (on the
Ugthorpe moors); one of these is on the moor not far from
Ugthorpe Mill, another stands a little east from Goldsborough,
and another is somewhat to the north east of East Barnby. This
last, the so-called Wade's Stone (*), is, I have no doubt at all,
sepulchral, and from personal inspection of its site and character-
istics, I feel confident examination would result in the discovery
Wade Grneat.ogy Corrections. 2
of one or more burials near. It is remarkable as being a mass of
the stone termed ' crowstone ' by Professor Phillips, and 'white
flint' by the dalesmen, which, notwithstanding the extreme hard-
ness of the material, i^ seamed and furrowed on its upper surface
in 'a really surprising manner." (*) Atkinson adds as a note:
" The tradition is uniform in connecting these stones with a giant
Wade, but not in counting them his gravestones; for there are
numerous fables, ascribing to the gigfantic powers of Wade, and
his wife and son, the erecting of such monuments, as well as the
building of Mulgrave and Pickering castles, and the forming of
the Roman road. One of Wade's stones which stood near Swar-
thouse was broken up some years ago to mend roads."
Page 37, note (q), add, little reliance can be placed on this account
of the origin of Lasswade.
Page 37, add, Wach in the parish of Hovingham, Yorkshire appears as
Wad in the Domesday Book, Wath in Habikeld Wapentake fig-
ures as Wat, and Wath upon-Dearne in the county of York is
called Wade, Wat, and Wate.
Page 38, The Domesday spellings of Wade place-names are instruct-
ive. To the courtes3- of that able antiquary, Mr. William Brown,
F. S. A.. Honorary Secretary of the Yorkshire Archaeological
Society, the compiler is indebted (with much other valuable data)
. for the following : Waddington figures in the Domesday survey
as Widitun, Wadsley as Wadelei and Wadesleia, Wadsworth as
Wadeswurde, Wadworth as Wadeworde, Wadewurde and Wade-
wrde, Watlas as Wadles, Wheatley (in Doncaster Parish) as
Watelag and Watelage and Wheatley (in Lancashire) as Watelei.
Page 38, line 13, add. Waddow Hall (township of Waddington), York-
shire and Wadlands (parish of Calverley), Yorkshire.
Page 40, line 34, add, Wade, Merton County, North Dakota. Mail
Mandan.
Page 41, note after (e) should be note (f).
Page 41, note (1) for Alexander L. Wade read Alexander Wade.
Wade Genealogy Corrections.
Page 49, line 4, for Dunken's read Dunkm's.
Page 49, line 14, for Job read Benjamin.
Page 54, line 6, for Major read Marslial.
Page 54, line 12, for correspondence read correspondents.
Page 56, line 23, add, for abstract of his will see Neiv England His-
toric and Genealogical Register, Vol. 51, page 276.
Page 74, line 6, for Yorke read Yorkshire and add Alured Comyn
was confirmed as Prior of Nostel, May 18, 1524. He was the last
Prior but one before the Dissolution of the Monasteries. See
Dugdjile's Monasticon, Vol. V, p. 91.
Page 75, line 6, for Anna read Anne.
Page 76, line 2, for werthy read worthy.
Page 76, note w, for alumi read alumni.
Page 82, line 27, for Cambridge read Oxford.
Page 85, line 3, note (i) should be note (a).
Page 88, line 14, for statesmen read statesman.
The Wade Genealogy
BEING-
Some account of the origin of the name, and of the lost folk-
story of the famous hero, Wada, particulars
and pedigfrees of famous English-
men of the name,
AND
Genealogies of the families of Wade of Massachusetts and
New Jersey, to which are added many miscellan-
eous pedigrees,
ALSO
A roll of honor of the Wades who went to War.
Illustrated with portraits and coats-of-arms*
Compiled by
STUART CHARLES WADE.
'He tolde a tale of Wade." Chaucer. Troilus and Cresseide, Book III. line CW.
New York,
Stuart C. Wade,
146 West 34th Street.
1900. ■
Copyright
I goo
by
Stuart Charles Wade,
New York.
Edition limited to looo copies, of which this is No..//t.Cr
Press of
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BWICHAM YOUMG UNIVERSITY
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To
JEPTHA HOMER WADE, ESQ.,
(of Cleveland),
To whose researches so much of this work is due, and by whose liberal
encouragement it was accomplished,
the Compiler,
with sincere respect,
dedicates
this volume.
New York,
1900.
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
The History and Genealogy of the Wade Family, of which this
forms Part i, comprises over 960 pages and 60 inserted illustrations in
10 parts, the six chapters being entitled as specified on the next page.
With Part 10 and in ample time for binding there will be supplied a
title page, dedication, preface, table of contents and list of illustra-
tions, together with a special set of pages for the inscription of the
purchaser's family record. Directions for placing the full page illus-
trations will also be supplied as well as a complete set of indices of
Wades, allied families and places.
No further charge will be made for these essential additions.
Covers for binding will be supplied or the binding of parts undertaken
at moderate cost.
Occupying as this compilation has the labors of many enthusiastic
collectors, necessitating, as the cost of material and labor have, an ex-
penditure of more than five thousand dollars, this publication can
never prove a source of profit to those concerned.
As a family record of every Wade it will be as perfect as time, labor
and money can make it. As a history of a famous family it possesses
much interest. As a careful compilation of the folk-lore and literature
relating to Wade it possesses, the compiler sincerely hopes, such
literary value as will insure its purchase by libraries and colleges.
The compiler's ability to publish the remainder of the book de-
pending entirely on the sale of the first part, he earnestly appeals to
every person of the name and all important libraries to purchase one
copy of his work. The Edition is limited. Early application is
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Chapter. •
Preface.
1. The Origin and Etymology of the Name of Wade
AND herein of DuKE WaDA.
2. The Antiquity of the Wade Family — English
Pedigrees and Famous Wades.
3. The Genealogy of Wade of Massachusetts and
Ohio.
4. The Genealogy of Wade of New Jersey and Ohio.
5. Various American Genealogies, including Wade
of Virginia.
6. The Roll of Honor of the Wades who went to
War.
Index of Wades.
Index of Names other than Wade.
Index of Places.
PREFACE.
The fact that up to the present, no one has published a connected
account of a family, famous not only in England, but in America,
should be a sufficient excuse, if excuse be needed, for the compilation
of this book.
A family which has produced Armigel Waad, Secretary of the Priv}^
Council to King Henry VIII. of England and one of the first English-
men to land in America; his sou. Sir William Waad, who had so lead-
ing a part in the colonization of Virginia, and whose activity as Lieu-
tenant Governor of the Tower of London procured for him the epithet
of "that villain Wade," from his prisoners, Sir Walter Raleigh and
Cobham ; Colonel Nathaniel Wade, theill-fated Monmouth's companion
at Sedgmoor; Field Marshal General George Wade, Commander-in-
Chief of the British Army in early Georgian days and builder of the
famous Highland Roads ; Colonel Nathaniel Wade, of Massachusetts,
who held West Point the night after Arnold's treason and who was the
friend and confidant of Washington and Lafayette; scores of Revo-
lutionary soldiers; United States Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade
and his patriot sons, Major-General James Franklin Wade and Major
Henry P. Wade of the United States Army ; Jeptha Homer Wade,
Senior, the first President of the present Western Union Telegraph
Company ; his son, a Union officer, and his grandson to whom the
compiler dedicates this book ; and to turn for a moment to the Old
World, Sir Claude Martine Wade, K. C. B., the soldier who first forced
the Khyber Pass, and Sir Thomas Francis Wade, G. C. M. G., K. C.
B., Her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of China; such
a family may be pardoned for a family pride which, deeming insuffi-
cient the scattered notices in biographical and genealogical works, has
essayed to present a collected, though necessarily far from perfect,
History of the Wade Famil}-.
Occupying, as the present compilation has, the labor of many
years and requiring the expenditure of much money, it can only
hope to serve as an index or stepping-stone for others who come
after to use. All honor to our ancestors who preserved records, to
Savage, whose Genealogical History of A'eiu England has proved of
great value, and to those, dead and gone, who with a pardonable pride
in the possession of an honored name, collected much of the material.
The compiler can only say with Montaigne, " I have gathered a posie
of other men's flowers, and nothing but the string that binds them is
mine own. "
Though the little Mayflower bore none of the name, as earlj^ in the
days of settling the Massachusetts Colony as 1630, came Nathaniel,
Nicholas, and Jonathan Wade, solid yeomen of the English county of
Norfolk, and settled around Boston. From this stock came men who
rushed to arms at the first call of the colonies, who mustered at Reho-
both to fight the fierce Narragansetts, who went with Pepperell to the
attack on Louisbourg, and whose descendants, m the times that tried
men's souls, responded to the first echo of the Lexington alarm — men
who fought at Bunker Hill, at Saratoga, at Harlem and in Rhode Is-
land, and who went with the "Father of their Country" to the wintry
horrors of Valley Forge. The records of the Revolution have been
carefully examined and all information obtained as to those Wades
who took up arms for freedom.
The compiler's especial thanks are due to very many members of the
family for valuable information, data, copies of documents and assist-
ance in his self-imposed task. The obligations under which he remains
to Messrs. Ebenezer Delano Wade, Judge Decius S. Wade, Major-
General J. F. Wade, Jeptha Homer Wade, Junior, William Wade of
Pittsburg, Daniel Treadwell Wade, William Dwight Wade, Alexander
T.<. Wade, George Washington Wade, Alfred L. Beebe, and his trans-
atlantic correspondents, William de Vins Wade, Armigel Bleaymire
Wade, D. T. Newton-Wade, William Cecil Wade, and Claude Fitzroy
Wade, in this respect, are deep and very sincere.
There exists a third class — as the old Winchester adage runs —
to be scourged. To the many engrossed too deeply in the chase of the
almighty dollar to reply to his circulars of enquiry, the compiler can
only express his conviction that in future years, their negligence will
be execrated by their descendants.
It remains but to add that all corrections, data and particulars will
be welcomed by the compiler with a view to later and more extended
editions of the work.
STUART C. WADE.
146 West 34th Street,
New York, March, igoo.
The Wade Genealogy
CHAPTER I.
THE ORIGIN AND ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME OF WADE AND
HEREIN OF DUKE WADA. (a)
"Sine nomine, homo non est." Puteanus: Diatr: cle Erycio.
"To find out tlie true originall of surnames is full of difficultie."— Camden.
Wade, according to Lower {Patronymica Britaniiica), is one of
the names that man derives from the face of nature. Briiaine's ^
Remaines (1614) speaks of it as a baptismal name in use in
England at the Conquest (1066). It is one of the oldest English
names, as the following folk-rhyme, (quoted by Lower), will
show : —
With T/iorpe and Bourne; Coke, Carter, Oke,
Combe, Bury, Doti and Stowe and Stoke,
With Ey and Port; Shaw, Worth and WADE,
Hill, Gate, Well, Stone are many made
Cliff, Marsh, and Moiitli and Don and Sand,
And Beck and Sea with numbers stand.
As to the derivation of the name, the same author ascribes it
to the Anglo-Saxon wad, as importing a meadow or a ford. The
late Dr. E. Cobham Brewer, also, in his excellent Dictionary of
Phrase and Fable, derived the name from the Anglo-Saxon wad, a
ford ; ivadan, to ford or go through (a meadow), but erroneously
instances the Anglo-Saxon name for the month of June — Weyd-
monat; as, so called, according to Verstegan, "because the
beasts did then weyd in the meadow, that is to say, go and feed
there."
Thus, an investigator may expect to find innumerable instances
of the surname from the earliest date when surnames came into
general use. Lower also informs us that the surname Wade itself
{a). The compiler acknowledges the deep debt of gratitude due to
his friend Mr. Wm. Addison Hervey, A.M., Instructor in Germanic
Languages and Literatures, Columbia University, New York Citj-,
for a considerable and valuable portion of this first chapter. To his
painstaking effort is due the entire credit for the excerpts and transla-
tions from the early Scandinavian and German literature as to the ex-
ploits of the hero Wade. If, as is sincerely hoped, this chapter pos-
sesses more than a mere genealogical interest, a part of the credit be-
longs to Mr. Hervey for his kind collaboration with the compiler.
(11)
12 The Wade Genealogy.
is also derived from a baptismal use of the name, but affords a
grain of comfort by the statement that it is not included in the
sixty most common surnames of the English people, a dictum also
confirmed by the reports of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths
and Marriages in England, and the data of the four largest
American cities.
Arthur, in his Ely mologicjl Dictionary of Names (1857) incor-
rectly ascribes our surname to the Dutch as derived from weide,
a meadow or pasture, but the Dutch weide, it seems, may have
been itself derived from the earlier and kindred Anglo-Saxon.
Hereon Ferguson, in his English Surnames (1858) goes more to
the root of the matter by relating that the father of the Anglo-
Saxon hero Weland, was called in that dialect Wada ; in Old
Norse, Vadi, and in Old High German Wado. The philologist
Grimm identifies Wada with the Danish hero Wate, in Giidrun.
In an old Anglo-Saxon poem, called the Widsilh, (Scop, G/eeman's
or Traveler's Tale, for the terms are identical), we are told that
Wada ruled over the Helsings, a Scandanavian tribe which left a
trace of its occupancy in the place-name, Helsingfors (b). Grimm
goes further and derives Wada's name from his having waded,
like a second Christopher, with his son on his shoulder, over
the nine-ell-deep Groenasund (c), between Seeland, Falster and
Moen.
Chaucer, the father of English poesy, mentions this famous
Saxon hero, perhaps real — perhaps mythical — in his classic Canter-
bury lales. He says :
" And eke thise olde widewes (God it wote)
They connen so moch craft on Wades bote {d)
So mochel broken harm whan that hem lest
That with hem shuld I never live in rest."
(Lines 9297-9300.)
{b). Helsi7igaland was probably the Finnish peninsular on the Gulf
of Bothnia. There is now a town named Helsingfors on the southern
extremity of that peninsular, situated on the Gulf of Finland. Also a
district in eastern part of Sweden, (just across the Gulf of Bothnia),
called Helsingland.
(c). Groenasund is the modern Gron Sound, between the Danish
island of Zealand, Falster and Moen. — (W. E. H.)
(d). Professor W. W. Skeat, the eminent Chaucerian scholar, in his
Works of Chaucer (London, 1S94) Vol. v. pp. 356-7, and his notes to
the Canterbury Tales (line 1424 of The iMarchafttes Tale), after men-
Origin of the Name of Wade. 13
{d) tioning various allusions to Wade, (all of which appear in this chap-
ter) continues -, ' 'After all, most light is given us by the following sentence
in Vigfusson and Powell : C[orptcs'\ P\oeticuni\ B\oreale\\. p. 168:
— 'that the king; [Nidad's;] daughter [Bodwildjhad a son byWeyland,
the famous Wade (the memory of whose magic boat Wingelock lin-
gered in Northern England till the Reformation), we know from
Wilkitia Saga.
•'I entirely differ with M. Michel's extraordinary conclusion about the
boat — "Nous avons quelques raisons de croire que ce bateau n'etoit
pas d'une course aussi rapide: en effet dans I'Edda il est dit qu' Odin
avint un valet et une servante nomm6s Ganglat et Ganglcet, mots
qu'on dit signifier mar chant lentement.'"
Of course Ganglate and Ganglset (as they should be written) mean
' slow-goer, ' but this has nothing to do with Guitigelot, which is mere-
ly a French spelling of some such form as Wingelok. It is obvious
that the sole use of a magic boat is to transport its possessor from
place to place in a few minutes like the magic wings of Wade's own
father. This is all we need to know, to see the point of the allusion.
Old widows, says Chaucer in effect, know too much of the craft of
Wade's boat; they can fly from place to place in a minute, and, if
charged with any misdemeanor, will swear they were a mile away
from the place at the time alleged. Mr. Pickwick, on the other hand,
being only a man, failed to set up an alibi, and suffered accordingly. "
Professor Skeat's opinion of Michel's suggestion is certainly
correct, as there could be no such connection between the Icelandic
and French words. Fr. Gu- regularly corresponds to Eng. W. as
for example in the equivalent of the proper name William. His
explanation of the allusion in Chaucer's line is ingenious and
perhaps correct, if we assume that the tradition of the boat became
confounded with that of the magic wings or, properly, "feather-gar-
ment. " When Wieland put this on he had somewhat the appearance
of a bird, although the King was still able to recognize him, perhaps by
his voice, for he spoke as a human being. Wieland' s boat had no
particularly magic qualities, nor did it afford especially rapid trans-
portation. It took Wieland eighteen days to float from the mouth of
the River Weser to the domain of King Nidung in Jutland (see post
Vilkina Saga, ch. 20). Men fishing near the coast dragged the enorm-
ous trunk ashore in their nets. They marvelled at its appearance, be-
cause it was so cleverly hewn and thought that something good must
be hidden therein. They sent to the King, asking him to come and
see this tree. When the King came and saw the trunk, he command-
ed them to examine what might be in it. Then they began cutting
into the trunk ; but when Wieland found what they were doing, he
called to them and told them to stop and said that a man was inside.
And when they heard the voice, they thought that the Evil One him-
self must be in the trunk; and they were terrified and ran away in
this direction and that, and told the King they thought the Evil One
was in the trunk. Meanwhile Wieland opened the trunk, came out
and went before the King and said: 'Sir, I am a human being and
not a spectre: and diligently do I pray that you will give me protec-
tion for my person and my belongings; then I will go with you and
serve you' " (ch. 21).
It is to be noted that Skeat errs in speaking of Wade as
Wieland's son. He bases his statement on the note of Vigfusson
and Powell which he quotes without going to the Vilkina Saga
for verification. That the editors of the Corpus should have made
this slip is a matter of some surprise, for the Vilkina Saga says plainly
14 The Wade Genealogy.
And again the same poet in The Booke of Troilus and Cresseide,
refers to this hero as popular and well known in the following
words :
"He songe, she plaide, he told a tale of Wade." {e.)
(Book III, line 615.)
As to the origin and significance of the word or name of Wade,
the earliest occurrence of the name of Wade in literature is in
Widsiih, or The Travelers Song, line 22, where Wada is men-
tioned as ruler of the Hehings. The date of Widsith is probably
as early as A. D. 433-440, and the poem is quite certainly con-
tinental. Of the Helsings we have no information, except that
Adam of Bremen (who wrote about A. D., 1080,) mentions Hel-
singaland as " civitas maxima Scritofinnorum." In the Lay of
Wieland (Elder Edda), the father of Wieland, Egil, and Slagfid, is
a Finnish king, whose name is not mentioned. In the Wilkina
Saga the father of Wieland (Volund) and Egil, is Wade (Vadi).
In the Anglo-Saxon poem. The Lament of Deor, (belonging to
the seventh or eighth century), the story of Wieland (Weland), as
told in the Vilkina Saga, is referred to so circumstantially as to
show that the poet knew it well.
The story of Wieland's having been carried across the Groena-
{d) that the son of Wieland and Bod wild was Wittig. The four genera-
tions are Wilkinus, Wade, Wieland, Wittig. Is it possible that Wade
became confounded with his father Wilkinus, whose boat was boarded
by the mermaid with whom he had lain while ashore just before he set
sail from the Baltic coast in Russia ? (cf. post, transl. from Vilk. Saga,
ch. 18). The mermaid climbed over the stern, seized the rudder and
held it so tightly that the ship came to a standstill. She did not leave
the ship until Wilkinus told her to come to him in his domain, where
he promised to receive her well, and take good care other. Six months
later she made her appearance at his dwelling saying that she was
about to bear a child by him, and he received her according to his
promise. May there not be an allusion to the cunning of widows and a
comparison with the mere-woman who brought Wade's father to terms
by heroic measures ?
Skeat says further (note to line 1425 brokoi harm): Taken all
together, lines 1424-6 simply imply that 'old widows are so full of
tricks for deceiving me, and can inflict at pleasure such small but con-
stant annoj^ances, that I &c. (He explains broken harm as meaning
"fragmentary, i. e. petty annoyances," "small worries.")
{e). "In this," says a critic, "there seems to be some obscene allu-
sion to what anatomists have termed fossa navicularis, (as to which
see Dnnglison' s Medical Dictionary ^^. 689), though what immediate
connection there could be with the mythical Wade, now escapes us. "
Origin of the Name of Wade. 15
sund on his father's shoulders, was probably a part of the Anglo-
Saxon tale, as well as his exploit in the wonderful boat which he
made from the trunk of a tree. The wonderful exploit of Wade
in carrjdng his son across the Groenasund, where it was nine ells
deep, might easily bring ^about the transfer of the boat episode
to him.
The Anglo-Saxon words which have a similarity to the proper
name of Wada or Wade are :
(i.) wadan, to go, stride, etc.; specifically, to go through water, to
wade. With this verb belongs the noun,
wad, a ford ; this word occurs also as weed.
(2.) W(£d, clothing, garment, etc.; the modern English weeds.
The resemblance between the name and the verb wadan seems
to offer a very plausible derivation. Grimm evidently believes it
the correct one, for he says he was probably so called because he
waded through the Groenasund with his son, Wieland. It is more
likely, that this exploit was attached to Wade through a popular
etymology of his name, which had, in fact, nothing to do with the
verb wadan (to wade), but was derived from Wuofan (Wodan). It
is probably true, however, that this name ultimately goes back to
the same root as wadan, in its earlier meaning, !o go; hence,
Wuotan : — source of movement or energy. As noted later in the
remarks on Wate in Gtidrun, there is a little doubt that Wada is
the successor of the god Wuotan, for he is everywhere endowed
with superhuman characteristics, and his function in the heroic
sagas corresponds very closely to that of Wuotan in the earlier
legends of the gods. If this be conceded, it is easy to connect
the Anglo-Saxon name for the Milky Way — Waetlingastret — with
the popular belief that Wodan's "wild army" or "wild hunt"
passed over the sky by this route. It is to be noted further that
in the district to which the Gndriin belonged the name for the
Milky Way is Vroneldenstraet (Frau Hilde's Way); and the leader
of Hilde's army for the recovery of Gudrun and the punishment
of her abductors was Wate.
The Anglo-Saxon verb wadan has nothing to do with the word
weyd (monat), as the month of June was called. Weyd is con-
nected with wcedan, to roam about, to hunt, etc., and wad, a hunt.
1 6 The Wade Genealogy.
English has lost this word, bat it is the German weiden, to feed,
pasture, ultimately to go seeking food, whence the idea of hunting,
which is preserved in the noun WaidrnmiJi (hunter), but not in the
verb. It may be connected with the Latin ve-nari, to hunt.
Watan, on the other hand, is the German ivaten, to wade, which
is ultimately connected with the Latin va-dere, to go, this being,
as noted above, the earlier meaning, now lost, of the Germanic
word.
As to the origin of the family-name, Wade, nothing of any sig-
nificance can be said. Speculation in this direction is futile.
While all indications point to an early Germanic origin, there is
always present the possibility of its having come from Romance
sources, so far as the etymology is concerned. The Italian bor-
rowed the word as guado, and it might have come back into
English as a surname. The very early record of Wada in Anglo-
Saxon sources seems, however, to make this unlikely.
The most natural way to account for the surname would be to
connect it with the place of residence, i. e. , it was given to a
family living near a wad, ox ford. The English did not keep " of
the " between the Christian and the family name. While the Dutch
name, e.g., remained Van-der-voort, the Englishman called himself
plain Ford.
It will be appropriate here to notice the mention of Wade in the
Vilkina Saga, an abstract of the parts relating to Wade being as
follows : — Chapter i8, " Of King Vilkinus, how he got the giant
Wade with a mermaid. , . . Vilkinus, King of Vilkinaland, was
a mighty and warlike hero. It happened once that he was crossing
the Baltic Sea with an army ; and when he was about to sail for
home and was lying off the Russian coast, it chanced one day that
the King went ashore and into a wood alone, none of his people
being with him ; and here in the wood he saw a woman who was
very beautiful and seemed to him most pleasing to look upon.
She delighted the King forthwith and he went up to her ; this
woman, however, was none other than what is called a mermaid, a
creature that in the sea is shapen like a monster, but on land has
the appearance of a woman. King Vilkinus put his arms about her
neck, kissed her, drew her to him and lay with her. And when
his people, who should have been following him, missed him.
Origin of the Name of Wade. 17
they went about the wood seeking him ; and soon afterward the
King came again to his people and his sliips.
" And as soon as a favorable wind rose they sailed away ; and
when they were far out at sea a woman climbed over the stern of
the King's ship, seized the rudder and held it so tightly that the
ship stood still. The King marveled how this could happen ; and
he remembered that it was the same w^oman that he had found in
the wood by the sea-coast, and he said to her : ' Let us go our
way ; and if you have any matter to lay before us, come to my land,
where I will receive you well, and abide with me.' Hereupon
she let the ship go and swung herself again into the sea, and the
King sailed homeward to his domain.
"And when he had been home a half year there came to him a
woman and said that she was with child by him ; and he knew this
woman well and had her brought to a house that belonged to him.
And when she had dwelt there a short time she bare a child that
was named Wcrde. Hereupon she would no longer remain there
and vanished ; and none knows what has become of her since
that. But the boy when he grew up became so tall that he was a
giant ; he took after his mother altogether, and was not like other
persons, but was ill-natured in his ways and was therefore nowhere
welcome. His father, also, loved him little ; but before he died he
gave hiin twelve estates in Seeland (a/so read Sweden and Sax-
land)."
Chapter 19 tells us of the giant Wade and his son Wieland
as follows: "The giant Wade, the son of King Vilkinus and the mer-
maid, dwelt now in Seeland on the estates which his father had
given him, as has been before told. And it is not told of him
that he was a war-hero, but he was satisfied with what his father
had given him at the beginning.
"Wade had a son who was called Wieland and was of exceeding
good promise. When he was nine winters old. Wade would have
him learn some craft ; he had heard of a smith in Heunenland who
was called Mimer, and was of all smiths the most cunning.
Thither fared the giant Wade with his son Wieland and gave him
into Mimer's care, that he should learn to smithy iron. After that
Wade returned home again to Seeland.
"At that time there was with Mimir also, Siegfried, the valiant,
1 8 The Wade Genealogy.
and he did to his fellows much ill, struck and beat them. When
the giant Wade heard that his son was also often beaten and
abused by Siegfried, he came again and took him home to See-
land.
" Wieland had been three years in Heunenland and was twelve
■winters old, and he remained now twelve months home with
his father. He was thought well of by everybody and was also
the most cunning of all men."
Chapter 20 relates to the giant Wade and the dwarfs and of
their death, and is in part as follows : " Now Wade heard in See-
land that two dwarfs dwelt in a mountain that was called Kalleva.
These dwarfs knew how to smithy better than any other, either of
dwarfs or of men ; well did they know how to make all iron-work,
such as swords, armor and helmets ; also of gold and silver they
could make all sorts of jewels ; and from every ore that can be
forged they could make whatever they would.
" I'hen the giant Wade took his son Wieland and fared thither.
And on the way he came to a sound that hight Groenasund i^f) ;
but there was no boat to set him over the sound, and he waited
there some time. Now when he had waited long and no boat ap-
peared, he took the boy, set him on his shoulders and waded
throiigh the sound, which was nine ells deep. More is not told of
their journey until they came to the mountain.
" Wade went to the dwarfs and talked with them and said he had
brought his son Wieland hither and would that they take the lad
for twelve moons and teach him all kinds of smith work ; for that
he would give them as much gold as they would agree for. The
dwarfs said that they would take the lad and teach him every kind
of craft if Wade would give them a mark {g) of gold. That he
accepted and gave it to them forthwith.
" The giant Wade now fared home to Seeland. But Wieland re-
mained there and learned to smithy, and so easy to teach he was
that he could forge after them whatever model they might give
him. And so well did he serve the dwarfs that when Wade came
for him at the time agreed they would not let him go. And now
(/). Between the islands of Zealand, Moen and Falster, in the Baltic
Sea.
{g\ In weight about eight ounces.
Origin of the Name of Wade. 19
they begged Wade that the lad might stay again twelve moons
there, and before Wieland should leave them they would rather
give back again the mark of gold which they had taken for him,
and they would teach him as many arts again as he had already
learned. This offer Wade accepted and agreed with them for the
day of his return. But the dwarfs rued it that they were to buy his
services so dearly ; therefore they talked with Wade and demanded
that if he should not come on the day agreed to fetch his son, they
should be permitted to cut off the latter's head. These condi-
tions Wade accepted and would now fare homeward.
Then Wade talked with his son alone and bade him follow him
outside the mountain ; this the lad did and then they spoke to-
gether about many things.
"Wade had a sword, which he took and thrust into a bog covered
with bushes so that none of it could be seen. Then he said to
Wieland: ' If I do not come on the day that is now agreed be-
tween us and you need help, because the dwarfs wish to take
your life, do you take this sword and defend yourself manfully ;
for that is better than to be murdered by two dwarfs ; and I will
that our kinsmen shall say that I have begotten a man and not a
woman. But I cannot think otherwise than that I shall come on
the day agreed.' Then father and son parted and Wade fared
homeward.
. . . . " Now when the twelve moons were nearly past, Wade would
go to fetch his son, rather too early than too late, because the way
was long and he would not that he should come after the ap-
pointed day. So he fared hence, and traveled both night and
day until he came to the place which had been appointed ; and he
came there three days earlier than had been agreed. But he
found the mountain closed and could not get in ; so he lay down
before the mountain and waited to see what would happen until
the mountain should be opened to him. But from his continued
journeying, and the long way, he was sore wearied, and so he went
to sleep and slept very soundly and very long. He was not tender
and he lay down just as he was, and he snored so that one could
hear it far. But meanwhile there fell such a heavy rain that it
was a marvel ; and at the same time there was a heavy earth-
quake, and it loosed from the mountain above a cliff, which, with
2 0 The Wade Genealogy.
a stream of water, with trees, stones, rubbish and earth, over-
whehned the giant ; and so did Wade lose his life.
"Now when the appointed day came the dwarfs opened the moun-
tain, went out and looked around to see whether Wade had come
for his son. Wieland also went out and down the precipice before
the mountain and looked around for his father, but saw him no-
where ; then he came to a valley and saw how a cliff had lately
fallen, and straightaway it came to his mind that this cliff must
have slain his father ; and he saw that there was no revenge to be
taken, and he thought now of what his father had counselled him
before they parted, and sought where the sword might be hidden ;
and at first he went to look by the cliff, but then he remembered
that Wade had hidden the sword in a bush-covered bog, but this
bog had been buried under the avalanche. Then Wieland knew
that he was in sore need; his father was dead and he himself was
destined to die. Again he looked about and saw on, a sudden the
sword hilt sticking up out of the ground. Then Wieland went
thither and pulled the sword out, looked at it and said : ' What
need I now fear of being worsted !'
" He saw how the dwarfs stood on a mountain and looked about,
but they were not aware of Wieland's purpose. Wieland went
now also to the mountain and had the naked sword under the
folds of his mantle and let it not be seen; he went up to the one
nearest him and gave him his death blow, and after that he slew
the other. Then Wieland went into the mountain and took all
their smith tools and all the gold and silver that he could find.
Hereupon he took a horse that belonged to the dwarfs and
loaded it with their gold and precious treasures ; he himself was
laden with as much as he could carry, and now he turned north-
ward toward Denmark.
" When Wieland had gone three days as quickly as he could, he
came to a great river that was called the Weser, and he could not
cross it. And by the stream was a great wood and there he
tarried some time ; and it was near the sea. Then Wieland
made ready ; he went to a hill by tiie shore and picked out a great
tree, felled it to the earth, cut it in two and then hollowed it out
inside ; and at the thinner end, where the branches grew, he
placed his tools and his treasure, and where the trunk was thicker
Origin of the Name of Wade. 21
and roomier he put his food and drinks and himself got in, and
then lie closed the trunk so tightly that neither river nor
sea could in any wise harm him ; and before the holes that were
in the tree he put glasses, which were so arranged that he could
remove them as quickly as he would ; but when the glasses were
there no water could enter, just as if the tree had been without
holes. So the tree lay on the bank of the stream, and in it
Wieland with all his treasure and all his tools ; then he moved
himself about in the trunk until it rolled into the water. This
trunk was now carried out into the high seas and was driven
about for eighteen days until it finally came to land."
A synopsis of chapters 21-31 is as follows : " Wieland's boat
went ashore in the domain of King Niching, in Jutland, and he
became his man. At first he served at the king's table, but
through an accident he was enabled to show his skill as a smith.
He made a trial of skill with Amilias, the king's smith, whom he
defeated and slew. He then became King Nidung's smith, and
was famed in all northern lands for his skill.
" King Nidung marched forth with his army to meet an invading
enemy. When one day's march distant from them he found that
he had forgotten his ' victory stone.' He called for a volunteer
to return and get it, promising his daughter's hand and half his
kingdom as reward. Wieland alone offered to make the attempt,
which he succeeded in by riding the wonderful stallion Schimming.
On his return the king's lord high steward tried to take the stone
from him by violence, but Wieland slew him. For this the king
banished him from his presence and Wieland disappeared, none
knew where.
" Finally Wieland returned disguised to King Nidung's court
and found a place in the kitchen. In revenge he attempted to
poison the king's daughter, but was detected through a knife
which he had made to accomplish his purpose and which led to
his identification. For punishment the sinews of his legs were
cut, so that he was thereafter always lame. For a while he was ill
treated, but was subsequently restored to favor and given charge
again of the royal smithy.
" Egil, Wieland's brother, came to King Nidung's court. He was
a famous bowman, and to prove his skill the king compelled him
2 2 The Wade Genealogy.
to shoot an apple from the head of his three-year-old son. This
master shot became far-famed.
" Nidung had three sons and a daughter. The latter broke her
best gold ring one day and sent it to Wieland to repair. He
refused unless the princess should herself come to the forge. She
did so, secretly, and Wieland restored the ring, but first he lay
with her, and this matter both kept secret for a time.
" Wieland quarreled with two of the King's sons and slew them,
concealing their bodies. They were sought long but vainly,
Finally Wieland took out the bodies, stripped the flesh from the
bones and from these made all sorts of utensils for the King's
table.
" The princess was with child, but told no one of Wieland's being
its father. She loved him and would fain have married him.
Wieland had now revenged himself on King Nidung and thought it
best to make his escape, lest Nidung might learn of what he had
done. With Egil's help he made a garment of feathers. He
flew into the air and called to the King, who marvelled to see
Wieland thus transformed. Wieland told him that he had killed
his sons and lain with his daughter, and thus revenged himself.
The King was wroth and bade Egil to shoot an arrow at the bird.
Egil aimed and shot Wieland under the left arm, where the latter
had tied a bag containing the princes' blood. When Nidung saw
the blood he thought Wieland was mortally hurt. Wieland, how-
ever, flew away to Seeland and dwelt there on the estates which
Wade had possessed. Nidung died soon after and was succeeded
by his son Otwin. The princess bore a male child, which
was named Wittig (other sources say she was called Bodwild).
Otwin was friendly to Wieland, invited him to return and gave
him his sister in marriage, and Wieland continued to dwell in
Jutland."
In the Giidrun (or Kudrun) Wate occupies a very prominent
place in the story. He is King Hettel's foremost vassal and
counsellor and performs many important services. He is called
the 6>/(/ (or Venerable, about=Wise), the Valiant, the Wi<e. Wate is
lord of Sturmland, which he holds in fief from Hettel, King of
the Hegelings. Like all of the other characters in the epic Wate
is wholly unhistorical. The poem is a blending of myth and
Origin of the Name of Wade. 23
legend, and was originally a tale of the gods which in the course
of centuries became transferred to heroes. (The Giuirun was
written down in its present form about a. d. i 190-1200, but the
songs on which the folk-epic is based probably existed many cen-
turies before. The geography of the poem is not certain, but the
land of the Hegelings was probably on the coast of the North
Sea, and Sturmland {or Sturmen) was probably adjacent to
Frisia.)
Some of Wate's deeds in Gudrun are the following : " King
Hettel had heard of the beauty of Hilde, daughter of King Hagen
of Irhmd. With Horant and Frute of Denmark, also Hettel's
vassals, Wate sails to Irland. They pretend to be merchants,
give rich presents to Hagen and ask his protection, declaring
they have been exiled by Hettel. At court Wate especially
attracts the attention of the ladies by his splendid stature and
attire. During a tourney Wate fights with Hagen and proves
himself a master-swordsman. They remain in Irland some time,
until finally Hilde and her young women go aboard their ships
one day to see their splendid treasures, whereupon they sail
away and bear the princess to Waleis (not Wales, but the site of
the present Netherlands), where Hettel receives them joyfully.
Hagen subsequently makes an expedition against Hettel. In
fierce combat he wounds Hettel and is himself wounded by Wate.
(The foregoing deeds seem to belong to Wate's younger days.)
"Hettel and Hilde have a daughter, Gudrun, like her mother, of
famous beauty. She is wooed unsuccessfully by Siegfried of
Morland, Hartmiit of Onnanie (Normandie) and Herwig of Seeland.
The last named attacked Hettel with a large army. A fearful
combat ensues and Gudrun begs that they make peace. Herwig
again sues for her love, wins it, and they are betrothed. He
returns to his land and is subsequently attacked by Siegfried of
Morland. At Gudrun's request Hettel goes to his help. During
his absence Hartmut comes and abducts Gudrun, with thirty or
more of her women, carrying them off to Seeland. Messengers
take the news to Hettel and Herwig, and on Wate's advice they
make peace with the Moors and pursue the abductors. By
Wate's advice, also, they seize the ships of some pilgrims whom
he knows to be not far away. This seizure seems to have brought
2 4 The Wade Genealogy.
disaster to them. (The author seems to connect pilgrims with
one of the crusades, a matter of no historical significance). They
overtake the abductors at the Wiil/ettsand (or Wi'dfenwerder'), an
island in the mouth of the Schelde. A fearful battle is fought, in
which Wate was foremost in dealing death to the enemy. King
Hettel was slain by Ludwig, Hartmut's father. During the night
following the battle, which was to be resumed on the next morn-
ing, the Normans stole away. The Hegelings do not attempt
pursuit, for their ranks have been terribly depleted. Wate alone
dared to take the sad news to Queen Hilde, of the defeat and her
husband's death. For thirteen years no attempt is made to
rescue Gudrun and take revenge on the Normans, but at the end
of that time enough of the Hegeling youth have grown up to make
the expedition possible. Wate, now an old man, but with undi-
minished strength and fierceness, leads the expedition. They
reach Normandy and attack the fortress. When the besieged see
Old Wate, they dread him as they would " a fierce and savage
lion." Long and fearful waged the battle, the lines flowing back
and forth like the waves of the sea. One there was that never
yielded an inch on this day, and that was old Wate. Terror went
before him, death and horror followed him. Finally Wate and
Hartmut came together, and only with difficulty did Herwig sepa-
rate them, Gudrun having besought him to do so for the sake of
Hartmut's sister Otrun, who had treated Gudrun kindly during her
captivity. Then Wate, more furious than ever, stormed through
the castle slaying men, women, and even children in their cradles.
The wicked Queen Gerlind, who had treated Gudrun most cruelly
because she persistently refused to break her vows to Herwig
and marry her (Gerlind's) son Hartmut, Wate seized and dragged
out into the great hall, where he cut off her head. Wate would
have burned the castle, but the covmsel of Frute and other leaders
dissuaded him."
As compared with Wade of the Vilkina Saga,\}i\^ most import-
ant difference in Wate is his fierce warlike nature. Wade, in the
Vilkina Saga, is said to have had the wild ways of his mother,
but does not appear as a warrior. He dwells contentedly on his
estates in See land, except when he goes to apprentice his son
Wieland to the smiths. It is believed that Wate did not origin-
Origin of the Name of Wade. 25
ally belong to the Gudrim story, as he does not appear in the
Scandanavian version. He seems to have been conceived by
some as a storm-giant, the name of his domain {Sturmen) perhaps
giving such suggestion. In the Giidrun are found several traces
of his superhuman nature and origin. He is said to have had the
strength of twenty-six men, his stature strikes terror, in his fury he
rages and roars like a lion. He blows a horn {K) that car^ be heard
thirty miles, and its blast causes the sea to foam and the castle walls
to tremble. He possessed the power to heal wounds, which art
he had learned from a wild woman (probably his mother, the
mermaid Wachilt.)
Wate has characteristics that belong to Wuotan and has prob-
ably been developed from the god for the purposes of the hero-
legend. Wuotan possessed the healing art, as is noted above of
Wate. Wuotan (or Odin) is represented with a great beard ;
Wate in Giidrim has a beard a yard in width. The god is spoken
of as aged or venerable : so, too, Wate, even early in the poem,
when he would in natural order of things be still in his prime, for
thirty years later he is still the same fierce, invincible warrior.
As Wuotan was the source of power, the one who decided the
issue of war and battle, so Wate is the organizer and leader of
warlike expeditions and the chief counsellor in important crises.
Finally it may be noted that the exploits of Wate are identified
with the scenes of Wuotan's activity, viz., Denmark and the Neth-
erlands.
Chaucer is not the only early author who refers to Wade, for in
the old English romance of Sir Bcvis of Hampton, (South-
ampton), {i) we find
After Josianis cristing
Beues dede a gret fighting, —
Swich bataile ded never non
(//) It is curious how this horn legend has been pi-eserved in the
family of Wade. A horn is to-day in the possession of William de
Vins Wade, Esq., of Great Dunmow, Essex, England, with an inscrip-
tion of "Wada" upon it. A half-tone illustration of this curiosity
appears in Chapter II, with full description.
(z) Metrical Ro?nances of the Thirtec7ith, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Centuries; published by Henry Weber, Vol. Ill (Edinburgh, 1810,
small 8vo.), page 315. Wade's adventure with the dragon is only
alluded to in the Auchinleck and Stafford MSS of Sir Bevis.
2 6 The Wade Genealogy.
Cristene man of flesch and bon, —
Of a dragoun thar beside,
That Beues slough ther in that tide:
Save Sir Launcelot de Lake,
He faught with a fur-drake, (/ )
And Wade dede also,
And never knightes boute thai to,
And Gij of Warwick ich understonde
Slough a dragoun in Northhomberlonde.
Sir Thomas Mallory in his Morie d' Arthur (Vol. i, p. 229,
Edit. 1816, 2 vols.; Wright's Edit. 1858, 3 vols., I c. 126, p. 247;
Macmillan Edit, by Strachey, 1879, cap. 9, p. 135), which in 1469
embodied many romances of the Crusaders, refers to the prowess
and bravery of Wade as proverbial. The passage occurs in a
scene between a distressed damsel and the knight Sir Beaumains,
on which Tennyson clearly founded his Garelh and Lynetie, and is
as follows :
"And then she said to Sir Beaumains: ' Why followest thou me,
thou kitchen boy ? Cast away thy shield and speare, I counsaile thee
yet, and flee away betimes or thou shalt say soon, alas ! for were thoic
as wight {hrsiwe) as ever was Wade, or Sir Launcelot, Sir Tristram,
or the good knight. Sir Lamorake, thou shalt not pass a pace hereby,
that is called the pace perilous (pass perilous.')"
From these quotations it would appear clear that at one time
there was current in England a series of folk-stories as to the
exploits of this hero Wade. That these stories are lost seems due
to the execrable carelessness of Speght, who, in his editions of
Chaucer (London, folios 1598 and 1602), passes over in his glos-
sary the words " Wade's bote " with the remark, " Concerning
Wade and his bote called Guingelot, as also his strange exploits
in the same, because the matter is long and fabulous, I pass it
over."
" Taniemne ret)i lam negligenler P" says Tyrwhitt (Edition of
Chaucer, (1843),) of his predecessor, Speght, " who, in his commen-
tary on Chaucer, has omitted as trivial and fabulous the story of
Wade and his bote Guingelot, to the great prejudice of posterity ;
the memory of the hero and the boat now being entirely lost ;"
adding, " Mr. Speght probably did not foresee that posterity would
be as much obliged to him for a little of this fabulous matter
concerning Wade and his bote as for the gravest of his annota-
tions."
{j) A fur-drake is, of course, a fire drake or fiery dragon.
Origin of the Name of Wade. 27
See also Sir Walter Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel^ 4to, Lon-
don (1805) p. 238.
The question arises as one of considerable moment for the
present work — who was this hero Wade whose exploits were so
famous at one time as to have formed part of the folk-lore and
folk-song of old England ? Irreparable as is the loss caused by
Speght's carelessness, M. Francisque Michel, an erudite French-
man, has done posterity much service by collecting, in the form of
a letter to M. Henri Ternaux-Compans, all that is known in rela-
tion to Une Ti'adition Angloise Du JMoyen Age. This pamphlet,
published in 1837, and now extremely rare, affords an inter-
esting amount of information as to this once-popular hero Wade.
From it we learn that in an enumeration of the heroes of Romance,
found in a manuscript translation of Guido Colonna, which is
dubiously attributed to Lydgate, and is preserved in the Bodleian
Library of Oxford University (Laud, K. 76, f. i, MSS. Bibl. Bodl.
Cod. Memb.) there occurs this reference to our ancestral hero : —
Many speke of men that romaunces rede
Of Bevys, Gy and Gawayne
Of Kyng Rychard and Owayne,
Of Tristram and Percyvale,
Of Rowland ris and Aglavaule,
Of Archeroun, and of Octavian,
Of Charles, and of Cassibedlan,
Of K(H)eveloke, Home, and of Wade,
In romaunces that of hem bi made
That gestours dos of him gestes
At mangeres and at great testes
Here dedis ben in remembraunce
In many fair romaunce {k).
Sir Francis Kynaston, in his Latin translation of Chaucer's
Troilus and Cresseide (London (1796), 8vo., p. xvi), adds in his
commentary the following note : —
"In his (Chaucer's) time there was a foolieh fabulous legend of one
Wade and his boate Guingelot, wherein he did many
strange things and had many wonderfull adventures, not much unlike
that man and his boate in our time who layed a wager that never
going out of his boate and without any other helpe but himselfe, he
would in a certaine number of days go by land and by water from
Abingdon (Oxfordshire) to London, and in his passage would go over
the top of a square steepel by the way, which thing he performed, and
woune his wager."
{k) See Warton's History of English Poetty, Price's Edition, Vol.
I, p. 123. note/.
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Then Kynaston. having quoted the passages in Chaucer and
Lydgate relating to Wade and the notes of Speght and Tyrwhitt
on the same subject, is, followed by Joseph Ritson in his Ancient
English Metrical Romatices (1803), V^ol. III. pp. 265 and 266, who
says : — " He (Wade) is suspected to have been either a Scot or a
Pict, and to have been the chief or leader in an irruption through
the Roman Wall ; in which was a chasm known, in old time, by
the name of Wade^gapp (/). (That there was such a place, we
find from the Roll of Escheats of 10 Elizabeth (A.D. 1568)
wherein occurs this entry : — " Robertus Thurlwall fuit seisitus de
et in manerio de Thurlwall, Lowbyre, le Hill, Chappel, Wade's
Gapp, Cruke, Wardhaw-hill, Shawlield, Dirt-house, Over-hill, Brow-
houses, Brunt- Walls, Holly-house, cum terris in Hexham, Estree,
Newbrugh, Haltwesel, Byddlesse, et Blind-gapp.")
Conybeare, in his Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry (1826,
8vo., p. Ixxviii), says : — " Chaucer enumerates the adventures
of Wade and his boat, a fiction also of the same school (see
Vilkina Saga), among the romances of price ; so that we have
probably lost a Saxon poem on this subject."
Sir Walter Scott {Sir Tristem; a metrical romance of the thirteenth
century; by Thomas of Ercildoune, called the Rhymer. (Edited
from the Auchinleck MS., 1S04, 8vo., p. Ixi; Edinboro edition.
18 19, p. Ixiii,) thus refers to the matter: — "The romance of
Wade, twice alluded to by Chaucer, but now lost, was probably a
Border composition. The castle of this hero stood near the
Roman Wall, which he is supposed to have surmounted ; and it
was long inhabited by his real or fancied descendants. It is
absurd to suppose that the Norman minstrels came into these
remote corners of the kingdom to collect or even celebrate the
obscure traditions of their inhabitants ; although, finding them
already versified, they might readily translate them in their own
language."
As to the question of a personal Wade and his nationality, we find
that doctors differ, as Thomas Wright, the famous English anti-
quary, wrote to M. Francisque Michel as follows : — " All that
Ritson and Scott say about Wade's being a Scotchman, and the
(/) See Wallis' History of Northumberland (1769), ^to., Vol. II,
p. 3, note e.
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29
romance having originated on the Border, is great nonsense. The
old Northern and Saxon romances existed in two different forms
in England. First they were preserved in the romances of the
mythic cycles, Avhich romances were, according to the manner of
their forefathers, long sung in the halls of the Saxon nobles. The
subjects of these romances were perhaps many of them more
popular in one tribe than another, and amongst the people of that
tribe the tradition was more vivid. As these tribes settled in
different parts of England they brought these traditions with them,
and, as doubtlessly in the country whence they came these tradi-
tions were located in particular positions, so when in their new
settlements in England the mind of the people among whom any
particular tradition was popular, which naturally preserves its
traditions by local associations, soon regarded the old stories as
referring to the places and objects which were every day before
their eyes, and there sprung up Wade's castles and Wade's gaps,
and the like. The romances are, unfortunately, in most cases
lost ; but the names which popular tradition had given to places
and things remain, while even the traditions themselves are but
faintly remembered ; and hence people have been often led into
the error of making Scotch and English heroes of a compara-
tively modern date out of names which have reference to the
earliest period of Teutonic Mythology."
Thus, we see, Wright, who is a standard authority on the Saxon
era, is of the opinion that all tradition of Wade is of the earliest
Teutonic origin ; in other words, that he is identical with Wada,
the father of Weland, so famed in the folk-lore of Scandanavia
and Germany. Weland, be it said, was the most famous of smiths
and all good swords are his work. It is curious also that the
Wilkhia Saga makes Weland the constructor of a wondrous boat,
so that tradition may have transferred the art of the son to the
father.
How widespread was the name, or at least the tradition of
Wade's exploits, may be gathered from the fact that legendary
Japanese history mentions a celebrated general and noted archer,
Wada YoshinovL by name, who served under Yoritomi in the 12th
century.
It is remarkable also that Carlyle, Heroes and Hero- Worship,
3°
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probably supplies us with the solution of the whole difificulty as to
the derivation of the surname Wade, and in so doing coincides
with Thomas Wright. He says : — " The word Wuotan which is
the original form of Odin, a word spread, as the name of their
chief divinity, over all the Teutonic nations everywhere ; this
word, which connects itself, according to Grimm with the Latin
vade?-e, with the English Wade, and such like, means primarily,
movement, source of movement, power."
But let the iconoclast have a say. Writing over the initials
H. C. K., in Notes and Queries, June 26, 1858, an unknown
critic thus summarily would dispose of the original Wade. He
says : — " Wades bote. Tyrwhitt's note on this passage is amus-
ing. After lamenting Speght's want of copiousness, he is of the
opinion that ' the allusion in the present passage to Wade's bote
can hardly be explained without a more particular account of his
adventures than we are likely ever to attain.' .... The
meaning of the passage in modern English is, that January, the
hero of the tale, is as much afraid of widows as Mr. Weller, senior,
and for much the same reason, viz., " They connen so moch
craft " in cases of breach of promise of marriage ! " Wade's
bote " is simply the forfeit of a pledge — our English term, ived
comes to us from the Teutonic. Schilter [Gloss. Teut.) gives wett,
pignus, Ang.-Sax. pactum, speciatim pactum sponsalitium. The
old Germans had wad. This Anglo-Saxon tved or ivedd is a
promise, pledge, or earnest, from iveddia7i, to bargain, make a vow
or contract, to wed, or betroth. As wed then indicates the con-
tract before marriage, so bote is the forfeit or reparation for the
breaking thereof. Hence we have the Anglo-Saxon bot, compen-
sation paid to an injured party, boot, recompense, amends, whence,
io bote, — to boot, with advantage. Thus " Wade's bote,'" instead
of being an illusion to a legendary tale of Wade, his bote is noth-
ing more than damages paid for breach of promise of marriage.
Part of the phrase, " wade,'''' is again used by Chaucer, Troiliis and
Cresseide III, 615, where the meaning is evidently a tale of love-
making or espousals."
How this erudite (?) iconoclast would explain the meaning of
passages such as " and Wade dede also " and " as wight as
Wade " in catalogues of the famous heroes of romance is a riddle
Origin of the Name of Wade. 31
more inscrutable than the face of the Sphinx. Perhaps he would
have a solution similar to the above for such names as Lancelot
du Lac, Guy of Warwick and Richard Coeur de Lion !
One thing seems certain ; that is, as early as A. D., 798, there
were one or more famous Anglo-Saxon chiefs named Wade. On
this point we have the following testimony. Matthew of West-
minster, in his jP/w/^'j A^/s/«;7i?/7/w (edition of 1601, folio, p. 151,
line 11), tells us that "about the same time (i. e., A. D. 798,)
Eardulfus, King of the Northumbrians, met in battle at a place
called Billingeho (now Langbo Fell) with Wade, the leader, and
certain of his fellow conspirators."
The Anglo-Saxim Chronicle, under the date 798, says : — " This
year there was a great fight at Hwelleage (Whalley), in the land
of the Northumbrians, during Lent, on the 4th before the Nones
of April, and there Alric, the son of Herbert, was slain, and many
others with him."
Roger of Hovenden (p. 406, line 2,) is exact as to date, and
states that Duke Wade led the revolt in 798 ; that the battle
occurred at Billingahon juxta Wallalege (i. e., Langbo Fell, near
Whalley in Lancashire), and that Wade and his fellow conspira-
tors were defeated and forced to flee.
Simeon of Durham has the following reference to this battle : —
"A. D. 798. A conspiracy having been organised by the murder-
ers of Ethelred the King, Wada, the chief of that conspirac}-,
commenced a war against Eardulph, and fought a battle at a
place called by the EngUsh Billangahoh, near Walalega, and,
after many had fallen on both sides, Wada and his army was
totally routed." Apparently he deals with a more southern Saxon
leader of the same name in speaking of a battle in 854 between
Earl Ealchere and Duke Wade on the one side and the pagans on
the other, as he locates the battle in the Isle of Thanet, in Kent
{?,e& Simeonis Du7ieh?iensis Historia, col. 140, line i). This same
Wade is called Huda by the historian, Florence of Worcester
(Edition of 1601, p. 583, line 12).
Further references to Duke Wada appear in Camden's Britan-
nia (1695) (/), wherein, after describing an Abbey founded by
(/) For references to Wade see Camden's ^r?Va««zfl, Gough's edition,
Vol. Ill, p. 18; col. I, p. 80, col. 2; p. 252, col. I, and p. 245, col. 2.
32 The Wade Genealogy.
Hilda, near Whitby, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the author
goes on to state that " hard by upon a steep hill near the sea
(which yet is between two that are much higher) a castle of V\'ada,
a Saxon duke, is said to have stood, who (in the confused disor-
derly times of the Northumbrians so fatal to petty princes), hav-
ing combined with those that murdered King Ethelred, gave bat-
tle to King Ardulph at Whalley, in Lancashire, but with such ill
fortune that his army was routed and himself forced to fly for it.
Afterwards he fell in a distemper, which killed him, and was
interred on a hill between two hard stones about seven feet high,
which being at twelve feet distance from one another, occasions a
current report that he was a gyant in bulk and stature." Camden
makes the following marginal note : — " Duke Wada, from whom
the family of Wade derive their pedigree — the year 798 — Wade's
grave."
Camden also refers to Wade when describing Whalley, in Lan-
cashire, as follows : — " Here in year 798 Duke Wada unfortu-
nately engaged Ardulph, King of the Northumbrians, at Bil-
langbo, now by contraction Langbo." And again in reference to
Thirlwall Castle, Northumberland, he says : — " Near this stands
Thirlwall Castle (no large structure), which gave a seat and sir-
name to that ancient and honorable family the Thirlwalls (w)
which had formerly the name of Wade."
The author of ''PendJe Hill in History and Lilerafure," thus
refers to the Revolt of Wada : — " Dr. Whitaker, the prince of local
historians, Mr. Charles Hardwick, and other chiefs of the Archaeo-
logical fraternity, amongst whom we must not forget to mention
Canon Raines, have devoted with commendable patience, time,
energy and money to mapping out the scene of a great conflict
which undoubtedly, once upon a time took place on the flank of
Langbo Fell. The Tumuli which are always conspicuous features
of these very early battle fields, are much in evidence on this
particular site. Canon Raines in one of his works published for
{in) As to the Thirlwalls of Thirlwall in Northumberland, see Geneal-
ogist u, 253, a.u^ Hodgson' s No7-thuniberla7id III, ii, 145. They bore
for arms a chevron Ijetween three boars' heads erased, and it is
remarkable that this boars' head charge appears on the coat of arms of
Maximillian Wade (of London, from county of Dorset), allowed at the
Visitation of London in 1633-4. {^ee post, chapter II.)
Origin of the Name of Wade. 33
the Chetham Society tells us that "In the year 1836 as Thomas
Hubbersley, the farmer at Brockhall, was removing a large mound
of earth in Brockhall Eavis, about 500 yards from the bank of the
Ribble, on the edge of the road leading from the House, he
discovered a Kist-vaen (or tomb) formed of rude stones contain-
ing some human bones and the rusty remains of some spear heads
of iron. The whole crumbled to dust on exposure to the air,
Tradition has uniformly recorded that a battle was fought about
Langbo, Elker and Buckfoot near the river Ribble. But what
about the battle that took place here ? We have a far richer
treasury of information on this point than we usually are fortunate
enough to possess in relation to such matters. The Ans[lo-Saxon
Chronicle under the date 798 records, "This year there was a
great fight at Hwelleage (which is understood to be Whalley in
the land of the Northumbrians) during Lent, on the 4th before
the Nones of April, and there Alric, the son of Herbert, was slain
and many of those with him." Simeon of Durham under the
same date says that "a conspiracy having been organized by the
murderers of Ethelred the King, Wada, the chief of the conspiracy,,
commenced a war against Eardulph. and fought a battle at a
place called by the English Billangahoh near Walalega, and after
many had fallen on both sides Wada and his army were totally
routed." At the time when this great conflict took place the north
of England must have been in a most miserable state. The lead-
ing spirit in this great battle was a certain Wada and certainly
there is some ground in the name itself for giving special interest
to this great struggle which took place in the later Saxon times at
the foot of Pendle. We have already referred to the village of
Waddington; and the enthusiasts of the Kemble school of Saxon
etymology will have it that Waddington means simply the settle-
ment or town or home of Wada, so that they establish immediately
an inferential connection between the revolted chieftain who with-
stood his king at Billangahoh, and this village of Waddington at the
very foot of Pendle. In confirmation of this theory they also
point with a good deal of reason to the neighboring village
Waddow as meaning the howe or the hill of Wada. But
notwithstanding infinite pains in research nobody has yet
been able to give us any satisfactory account of who Wada
34 The Wade Genealogy.
himself was. Of course it will be remembered that we have our-
■selves adventured the opinion that Waddow and Waddington in-
stead of having any connection whatever with any individual chief,
owe their names in reality to the adoration once offered at or near
them to the old deity Woden. Mr. Charles Hardwick in his
monograph, Some Aftciefii Battlefields in Lancashire, &'€.,
(1882), pp. 130-147, has certainly shown most commendable in-
dustry in collecting together a museum of references to personages
or creatures of the imagination, who once rejoiced in the name of
Wada. We are told that a chief so called is mentioned in the
Anglo-Saxon poem called The Traveler's Tale as being one of the
chiefs of the Haelsings ; and we are reminded that Mr. Haigh,
in his Anglo-Saxon Sagas regards him as probably one of the com-
panions of the first Hengist. From this Mr. Hardwick infers that
the Wada of Waddow and Waddington and the hero of the battle
of Langbo, was a descendant of this prehistoric adventurer. Then
again we are told that amongst the heroes of heathen tradition
Wada is celebrated in ways that have still left their trace in Eng-
land. One of the marvels attributed to him in the ancient myths
is that he waded across an arm of the sea carrying his son on his
shoulder. Mr. Kemble certainly seems to find some remote ref-
erence to this particular legend when he recalls that Chaucer once
or twice refers to " Wade's boat " in such a way as to show that
the expression was used in an obscene sense ; but then it is the
common fate of those who are heroes and demi-gods in one age
to be regarded as laughing stocks in periods of later time. The
good fortune of King Eardulph deserted him on a future occasion.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says ' A. D. 806 — This year the moon
was eclipsed in the Kalends of September and Eardulph, King of the
Northumbrians, was driven from his kingdom.' This is the last
we hear, says Mr. Hardwick, of the victor of Billangahoh ; and the
manner of his exit from the historic stage would seem to indicate
that his rule like that of his predecessor had become so intolerable
that further revolts ensued and that Wada's sucessors, whoever
they may have been, being successful in their contumacy, would
be regarded not as traitors, but as saviours of their country.
Truly in struggles of this character successful rebels writing their
own history are ever lauded as heroes or patriots, while discom-
Origin of the Name of Wade. 35
fited rulers are with equal verity denounced as tyrants and
enemies of the common weal. After a minute examination of
every detail still observable Mr. Hardwick comes to the conclu-
sion that Wada and his allies on leaving Waddington crossed
the Hodder at the ford nearest its mouth, met the king's army on
the banks of the Ribble and the possession of Bullasey was the
immediate object of the encounter in which the rebellious chieftain
was discomfited ; or the route may have been reversed ; Wada
may have crossed the Ribble at Eungerley " hipping stones " to
the northwest of Clitheroe, and after penetrating the northern por-
tion of the present county had to fall back before the advance of
the King's army and, unable to retrace his steps, made for the
nearest ford at Bullasey where he was pursued and defeated across
the river."
Mr. Kemble (Saxons in Enghmil) says : — " Among the heroes
of heathen tradition are Wada, VVeland and Eigil. All three so
celebrated in the myths and epos of Scandinavia and Germany,
have left traces in England. Of Wada, the Iraveler's So?ig
declared that he ruled the Haelsings ; and even later times had
to tell of Wade's boat, in which the exact allusion is unknown to
us ; the Scandinavian story makes him wade across the Groena-
sund, carrying his son across his shoulder. Perhaps our tradi-
tion gives a different version of this story."
This story may have something to do with the genesis of the
legend of St. Christopher bearing the infant Christ on his shoul-
ders over a broad stream, a subject of one of the early mediaeval
pictures discovered some time ago, on the removal of the white-
wash from the walls of Gawsworth Church, near Macclesfield, in
Cheshire. The historical anachronism, in ascribing such an
action to him, may have resulted from the mere transference of it
from the pagan hero to the Christian saint. The original story
seems to have been pretty familiar to the people as late as the
fourteenth century. Mr. John R. Green, in his Making of Eng-
latid, says : — " In the star-strewn track of the Milky Way, our
fathers saw a road by which the hero-sons of Waetla marched
across the sky, and poetry only hardened into prose when they
transferred the name of Watling street to the great trackway which
passed athwart the island they had won, from London to Chester.
36 The Wade Genealogy.
The stones of Weyland's Smithy still recall the days when the
new settlers told one another, on the conquered ground, the won-
drous tale they had brought with them from their German home,
the tale of the godlike smith, Weland, who forged the arms that
none could blunt or break ; just as they told around Wadanbury
and Wadanhlaew the strange tale of Wade and his boat. When
men christened mere and tree with Scyld's name, at Scyldsmere
and Styldstreow, they must have been familiar with the story of the
godlike child who came over the waters to found the royal line of
the Gwissas. So a name like Hnaef's-scylf was then a living part
of English mythology ; and a name like Aylesbury may preserve
the last trace of the legend told of Weland's brother, the sun-
archer, Egil."
Leland, in his Itinerary (Vol. i, p. 59), speaking of Mulgrave
Castle, near Scarborough in Yorkshire, says : — " Mougreve cas-
telle stondish upon a craggy hille ; and on ech side of it is an hille
far higher then that whereon the castelle stondish. The north
hille on the toppe of it hath certen stones communely caullid
Wadde's Grave («), whom the people there say to have bene a
gigant and ouner of Mougreve."
Hinderwell, in his History and Antiquities of Scarborough, Yorli-
shire (2nd Edition 181 1, pages 18 and 19), thus refers to another
instance of the folk-story of Wade : —
" What makes it, (the village of Dunsley), more considerable is a
Roman road which leads from it, many miles over these vast
moors and morasses towards York. This extraordinary road, at
present disused, is called by the country people Wade's Causey
(i. e., Causeway), concerning which they relate a ridiculous tradi-
tional story of Wade's wife and her cow (0). It is, however,
(n) Dr. Young's History of Whitby, Yorkshire (1817), says Wade
lived within four miles of Whitby. See also Charlton's Whitby, p. 40.
(<?) The fabulous history is, that Wade had a cow, which his wife was
obliged to milk at a great distance, on these moors, and for her better
convenience he made this causeway, and she helped him by bringing
great quantities of stones in her apron ; but the strings breaking once
with the weight, as well the^^ might, a huge heap (about twenty cart
loads) is shown that dropped from her, and the supposed rib of his
monstrous cow is still shown to such as visit Mulgrave Castle. A local
author conceives this rib to be the bone of a whale, but admits that
the common people are still infatuated with the ancient opinion.
Origin of the Name of Wade. 37
worthy of observation, that this name accords with Camden's
Saxon duke Wada, who, he says, hved at a castle on these coasts,
and probably in the deserted Roman fortress or station. Two
stones, about seven feet high, and placed at twelve feet distance,
a;re called Wade's Grave, as they believe that this Saxon prince
was a giant. These stones are, probably, ancient sepulchral
monuments."
How widespread was this tradition of Wade and how scattered
and numerous were his descendants, and this at a very early date
appears from the Doomsday Survey. In its quaint characters we
find Wade as the name of a tenant in par avail, probably a Saxon,
holding land before the survey. Wado, Wadolo, Wadel, Wadellus
and Wadele are also names recorded in the survey. Wadellus
held land near Wadefaste and Wadesbridge, in North Cornwall.
But as place-names the principal usage of Wade appears. There
is a Deepwade Hundred in Norfolk and has been from Dooms-
day to this day. We find Wild in Gerlestre Wapentake in
the West Riding of Yorkshire, a Wadberge in Clent Hundred, of
the county of Worcester; two Wades in the West Riding of York
and three instances in Lincolnshire. There is a Wadeham in
Devonshire, a Wadescel in Derbyshire, a Wadingham in Lincoln-
shire, a Wadefeste in Cornwall and Wadetuna (now Watton) and
Wade's Beck Bridge, near Thursford, in the county of Norfolk.
The county of Kent had several instances. There is a parish
near the Isle of Sheppey once called Iwade, but now called
Warde. Wadeslade is a manor in the parish of Chatham ; Waden-
hall and Wadling are manors in the parishes of Waltham and Rip-
ple respectively. There is a parish of Landwade in the county of
Cambridge, while Biggleswade (/) in Bedfordshire, Lasswade (y)
in Scotland, and Wade in the North Island of New Zealand, con-
vince us that the Wades wandered from Dan to Beersheba and
left their marks on the land in place-names.
{p) Biggleswade = Biggie's ford, over the river Ivel, now replaced
by a stone bridge. Wath (as wat) a shallow wading place.
{q) Between five and six miles from Edinburgh, lies a small village,
scarcely more than a hamlet, consisting now of only a few old houses,
thatched with peat; a blacksmith's forge, and humble, little chapel,
it is yet on the high road from Edinburgh to the east
I was impressed with its odd sounding name to inquire of our
38 The Wade Genealogy.
To the courtesy of Mr. Daniel Treharne Newton-Wade of New-
port, Monmouthshire, England, the compiler is indebted for the
following list of Wade place-names in England and Wales. It
proves, if anything, that at a very early date the Wades flourished
" wherever the hazel grew." The list follows : —
Wadborough, a hamlet, Holy Cross parish, County of Worcester.
Waddesdon, (r) a parish, near Aylesbury, County of Buckingham.
Waddingham (or Wadingham), a parish, near Caistor, County of
Lincoln.
Waddington, a parish, near Lincoln, County of Lincoln.
Waddington, a chapelry, parish of Mitton, County of York (West
Riding).
Waddingworth, a parish, near Horncastle, County of Lincoln.
Waddon, a hamlet, parish of Portisham, County of Dorset.
Waddon, a hamlet, parish of Croydon, Cotanty of Surrey.
Wade and Ower, a tything, parish of Eling, County of Hampshire.
Wadebridge, a small seaport town in Egleshayle and Great Breville
parishes. County of Cornwall (s).
Wadeford, a place near Chard, bounty of Somerset.
Wadenhoe. a parish, near Oundle, County of Northampton.
Wade's Causeway, a Roman road in Yorkshire, from Stamford Bridge
past Mallon, Broughton and Cawthorn to Mulgrave Castle, near
Whitby (/").
Wadesmill (u), a hamlet, near Standon, Count}' of Hertford.
Wadhurst (7/), a parish, near Ticehurst, County of Sussex.
Wadley, a tything, parish of Great Farringdon. Count}'^ of Berkshire.
Wadsley, a chapelry, near Ecclesfield, County of York (West Riding).
Wadswall and Wadswick, two hamlets, parish of Box, County of
Wilts.
Wadsworth, a township, parish of Halifax, County of York (West
Riding).
driver, the meaning of its curious title, Lasswade. He told me the fol-
lowing quaint tradition : About a century and a half ago the only
means of fording the stream was either by one's individual exertions
in the matter of leaping from stone to stone, or by the equally primi-
tive method of being carried bodily. A ferry of even the rudest
description was unknown.
When desirous of crossing by other than the first means mentioned
it was the custom of the inhabitants to station themselves at the
water's edge and halloo " Lass wade !" In response to this salutation,
a stalwart-looking lassie would step forward, and, hoisting the intend-
ing passenger upon her shoulders, wade through the tumbling waters.
On depositing her burden on the other side, she received her two-
pence toll and waded back again. And so it was that the little settle-
ment came in time to be known as " Lasswade."
"The Legend of Lasswade." Current Literature, Jan., \i
(r) Called Wodesdon in a charter of 37 Hen. VI. (i. e., A. D 1459).
{s) Wadebridge, in the opinion of Cornish antiquaries, derives its
name from the ancient family of Wade, long settled at nearby Tinta-
gel and Boscastle. As to these see post, chapter II.
\t) See ante page 36.
Origin of the Name of Wade. 39
Wadworth, a parish, near Doncaster, County of York (West Riding).
Wadshaw, a place, on Haworth Moor, County of York.
Waddon Hall, a residence, parish of Waltham, County of Kent.
Wade's Hall {■w), a residence, parish of Ugley, County of Essex.
Wade's Green (.r), parish of MinshuU, County of Chester.
Wadfast, a place, near Week St. Mary, County of Devon.
Wadland, a place, parish of Ashbury, County of Devon.
Waddish, a place. County of Dorset.
Wadford, a place. County of Somerset.
Wadsham Dean, a place. County of York.
Wadshelf (jy), a place, County of Derby.
Wadshay, a place, County of Devon.
America has been, from its greater area, if anything, more pro-
lific in Wade place-names. The following appear in Gazetteers
and directories of recent date : —
Wade, St. Clair County, Alabama.
Wade Cross Roads, Cherokee County, Alabama. Mail, Forney,
Wade Gap, Jefferson County, Alabama. Mail, Hillman.
Wades, Cross County, Arkansas.
Wade Spur, Cross County, Arkansas. Mail, Vanndale.
Wade, Kern County, California. Mail, Kern.
Wade, Modoc County, California. Mail, Lookout.
Wade Rock, Butte County, California. Mail, Oroville.
Wade's Meadow, Tuolumne County, California. Mail, Big Oak Flat
Wadawunck, New London County, Connecticut. Mail, Stonington.
(u) Wadesmill stands on the ancient Roman road, the Erming Street
(soldier's road), and may be derived from the Latin vadmn, strictly a
ford or shallow place, and possibly as derived from vadere, to go,
meaning a road or way. In a letter (preserved in the British Museum)
under date Standon, Augu.st 22, 1465, Alderman Field, of London,
speaks of this hamlet as " Walysmyll;" but it is memorable that upon
a small brass in the nearby church of Standon, dated Sept. 15, 1557,
and erected to Guy Wade, a reference to the name is made in the open-
ing words: —
Thy lymes (limbs), O Wade, yt lately death hath slaine
Under this stone entered here remaine, etc.
(The will of Guy Wade, Esquire, of London and Standon, Herts, is
proved in Vol. 40, Register Wrastley, of the Prerogative Court of the
Archbishop of Canterbury.) A Rev. John Wade was Vicar of Standon
from October 21, 1670, to 1719, and a Rev. William Wade filled the
same office from his predecessor's death in 1719 until his own decease
in 1728.
{v) Called Wadehurst in a deed dated 13 Elizabeth (i. e., A. D. 1571).
(w) This place is said by the Vicar to be a corruption of Ward's.
Thomas Buck lived there in 1607.
(.r) This locality was probably named after the Wade family long
inhabiting Church Minshull. See chapter H, post.
(_y) Possibly identical with the Wadescel of Domesday Book.
40 The Wade Genealogy.
Wade, Alachua County, Florida.
Wade, Emanuel County, Georgia, near Swansboro.
Wade's Park, Brooks County, Georgia, near Quitman.
Wade's Store, Brooks County, Georgia. Mail, Okapilco.
Wade, Jasper County, Illinois. Mail, Newton.
Wadena (z), Benton County, Indiana.
Wadesville, Posey County, Indiana.
Wade, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory.
Wadena (z), Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. Mail, Kosoma.
Wadeville, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. Mail, Mountain Fork,
Ark.
Wadena (z), Fayette County, Iowa.
Wade, Leavenworth County, Kansas. Mail, Fort Leavenworth.
Wade, Miami County, Kansas.
Wadesboro, Calloway County, Kentucky.
Wade's Mill, Claik County, Kentucky. 87S inhabitants.
Wadesboro, Tangipahoa County, Louisiana. Mail, Ponchatoula.
Wade Plantation, Aroostook County, Maine. Mail, Washburn.
Wade, Clare County, Michigan. Mail, Clare.
Wades, Wexford Count}', Michigan.
Wadena (z), Wadena County, Minnesota.
Wadena Junction (z), Ottertail County, Minnesota. Mail, Wadena.
Wade, Jackson County, Mississippi, near Three Rivers.
Wade Lawn, Issaquena County, Mississippi.
Wade, McDonald County, Missouri. Mail, Donahue.
Wadesburg, Cass County, Missouri. Mail, Creighton.
Wades, Lewis and Clarke County, Montana.
Wade's Spur, Lewis and Clarke County, Montana. Mail, Helena.
Wade {a), Cumberland County, North Carolina.
Wade, Harnett County, North Carolina. Mail, Dunn.
Wadesboro (d), Anson County, North Carolina (13).
Wade's Mill, Cumberland County, North Carolina.
Wade's Siding, Moore County, North Carolina.
Wades Point, Beaufort County, North Carolina. Mail Bath.
Wadeville, (c) Montgomery County, North Carolina.
Wade, (^/) Washington County, Ohio.
(z) Wadena, be it said, once in early days, in Illinois, is an Ameri-
can-Indian word, signifying, "beautiful maiden." The name has
appositel}' been bestowed by Mr. J. H. Wade, Jr., of Cleveland, upon
his handsome steam yacht. This particular village is the county seat
of Wadena county, northwest-central Minnesota, 162 miles west of
Duluth, on the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads. It is
in a farming and lumbering region. It has three weekly newspapers.
Population 1895, 1,252.
(a) Wade, N. C, was named after N. G. Wade about 1886. He was
born in the village, became a prominent railroad man, and, later,
resided at Bingham, S. C.
(d) So named from a noted resident. See post, chapter V. As to
the Wadesboro area of Triassic rocks, see Dana's Manual of Geology,
4th Edit. , p. 74. Wadesboro is the capital of Anson County, southern
North Carolina, 52 miles E. S. E. of Charlotte, and on the Seaboard
Air Line and Cheraw and Salsbury railroads. It has a national bank,
two weekly newspapers, Anson Institute, and is an agricultural dis-
trict. Population 1890, 1,198.
Origin of the Name of Wade. 41
Wade Park (e) Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Mail East Cleveland.
Wades, (/) Hamilton County, Ohio. Mail Cincinnati.
Wade, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, near Pottsville.
Wade's Colliery, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
Wade Siding, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Mail Washington.
Wade Siding, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Mail St. Clair.
Wade, Rutherford County, Tennessee. Mail Florence.
Wades, Lake County, Tennessee.
Wades Cave, Anderson County, Tennessee. Mail Hinds Creek.
Wades Landing, Obion County, Tennessee. Mail Clayton.
Wades Store, Anderson County, Tennessee. Mail Hinds Creek.
Wadeville, Hickman County, Tennessee.
Wade, Guadalupe County, Texas, 13 miles N. E. of Seguin.
Wades, Nueces County, Texas. Mail Casa Blanca.
Wade's Chapel, Parker County, Texas. Mail Hiner.
Wadeville, Navarro County, Texas. Mail Kerens.
Wades P. O. {^) Bedford County, Virginia.
.Wade School House, Highland County, Virginia. Mail Mill Gap.
Wades Store {/i) Bedford County, Virginia. Mail Wades.
Wadesville, (/) Clarke County, Virginia.
Waidsboro, (j) Franklin County, Virginia.
Wade, (^) Tucker County, West Virginia.
Wadestown, (/) Monongalia County, West Virginia.
Wadesville, Wood County, West Virginia. Mail Lubeck (? Tyner)
Wades Landing, (w) Frazer River, British Columbia.
Wade's Creek, («) Alaska.
(c) Wadeville N. C. was named after W. T. Wade and C. C. Wade
who kept a store here in 1871. Their grandfather was a brother of Col.
Thos. Wade, a Revolutionary patriot of N. C.
(d) Named after U. S. Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade, as to whom
see Chapter III pos^.
{e) Named after its donor Jeptha Homer Wade of Cleveland. See
Chapter IV post.
(f) Probably named after David Wade the pioneer settler from New
Jersey. See Chapter IV pos/.
{g) (/i) Wades P. O. Bedford Co. Va. and Wades Store were so named
after Alexander Wade who kept this post office about 1839.
(/) Wadesville, Va., was named after James, Daniel and Robert M.
Wade, sons of Daniel Wade of Frederic County Va. They kept a
store here about 1833.
(/) Waidsboro, Va. was known to the Post office prior to i860 as Story
or Starry Creek, then called Waid's Store, and now Waidsboro after
Edmund Waid, a merchant and tobacco manufacturer, about 1860-70.
(/&) Wade, West Virginia was established as a post office in 1896.
There are only two houses there. The present postmaster knows no
local reason for the name.
(/) Wadestown, W. Va. was once called West Warren, but the post
office was termed Wadestown about 1S42 when the land was laid out
for a town by Thomas Wade its owner. He was father of Alexander
L. Wade (see post Chapter V.)
42 The Wade Genealogy.
A final word as to the Welsh and Irish families of the name.
One thing is certain and that is that the name Wade is essentially
of Teutonic or Scandinavian origin. It is neither Erse nor Celtic
arid therefore is not autochthonal in the principality of Wales or
the kingdom of Ireland.
That Wades invaded the principahty of Wales with the early
English kings is as certain as the fact that one of the family was
at the battle of Flodden Field. That they early settled there
appears from numerous early records.
As to Ireland, the records disclose a Captain Wade there under
Cromwell and Samuel Wade Sr. and Samuel Wade Jr. as officers
of the army in 1649. Sir William Waad, (died 1623), was
Superintendent of the soldiery in Ireland and Bryan Wade, Henry
Wade, Samuel Wade and Major William Wade are recorded as
recipients of extensive grants of Irish lands in Cork, Kerry,
Meath, Tipperary, Limerick, Waterford and Kings Counties at an
early date. In 1702 Richard Wade, Charles Wade, and John
Wade are mentioned as land owners.
The alleged Scythian origin of the Saxons may explain the
frequent use of a form of the name as a place name such as Wady
Haifa, Wadai, Wadan, and Wadelai in Africa. The Saxon
occupancy accounts for Waadt (the German name for the Canton
Vaud in Switzerland); Wadensmil in Canton Zurich, and
Wadersloh in Westphalia. Wadasima is a port in Japan, Wadden
in Friesland (Netherlands) in an old map in the British Museum is
called Vada vulgo Wadden; Wadet Thana is a district in Bombay
Presidency, India. Wadi Arabah is in Palestine and Waidhofen in
Austria.
. So much, therefore, for the origin and etymology of our sur-
name. Well indeed can it be said that our ancestors have made
for us "a local habitation and a name."
(;«) "Wade's Landing was named after Francis Wade of Montreal,
who settled here about i860, married an Indian woman, died 1894 and
is buried at the head of Lake Douglass.
{n) In the Yukon District, and the scene of a stampede of miners in
search of gold, April 27, 1899. So named in honor of Frederick Coates
Wade, a Canadian barrister, who was Crown Prosecutor in British
Alaska.
CHAPTER II.
THE ANTIQUITY OF THE FAMILY OF WADE ENGLISH PEDIGREES
AND SOME FAMOUS WADES.
To trace the Wade ancestral tree
To the very root of the pedigree,
Were a task as rash as ridiculous,
Through antediluvian mists as thick
As a London fog such a line to pick.
Were enough, in truth to puzzle Old Nick,
Not to name Sir Harris Nicholas, {o)
It wouldn't exhaust all the art heralds shewed in
Their old Visitations, to trace Wade to Woden,
But waiving all such digressions,
Suffice it, according to family lore,
A patriarch Wade there lived of yore.
Who was famed for his great possessions.
Tradition said he feathered his nest
Through an Agricultural Interest,
In the Golden Age of Farming ;
When golden eggs were laid by the geese
And Colchian sheep wore a golden fleece
And golden pippins — the sterlmg kind,
Of Hesperus — now so rare to find —
Made Horticulttire quite charming! '
(With apologies to the shade of Thomas Hood.)
' ' In the afternoon of time
A strenuous family dusted from its hands
The sand of granite, and beholding far
Along the sounding coast its pyramids
And tall memorials catch the dying sun,
Smiled well content, and to this childish task
Around the fire addressed its evening hours."
R. L. Stevenson — Skerryzwre.
The antiquity of the Wade Family has been, it would seem,
sufficiently demonstrated in the preceding chapter. Instances of
the name occurring in English records are numerous even before
the Norman Conquest of 1066. From that date record after
{d). Sir Nicholas Harris Nicholas, (i 799-1 848), a famous genealogist
and antiquary.
(43)
44 The Wade Genealogy.
record reveals the deeds and honors, and occasionally, the slip
from grace, of the early Wades.
Perhaps one of the earliest instances of the name is to be found
in The Codex Diplomaticus Anglo-Saxonica (Kemble), published by
the Historical Society of England, wherein, folio 493, we find the
name "Wade hwaede" as Viscount or sheriff of the county of War-
wick, at a very early date. An antiquary renders " hwaede " as
" the gentle, " a misnomer surely for a sheriff, in the days when
death was the punishment for nearly every crime, and the sheriff
the sworn officer to execute the barbarities of a Draconian code.
There is an early and notable instance of a kindred name. Ralph
Wader was Earl of Norfolk, and flourished about 1070. He was the
son of Ralph the Staller. William of Malmesbury says he was a
Breton, probably from the fact that his wife was a native of Brit-
tany and heiress of the castles of Wader and Montfort in that
country. Ralph is a strange name for a Saxon but his brother was
named Godwine. Both were almost undoubtedly of English birth.
Ralph rebelled against William the Conqueror, turned Crusader
and died on the road to Jerusalem before July, 1098. (See Dic-
tionary of National Biography, \o\. 23. p. 314). That one of the
early Wades was fortunate in placing his trust in princes, appears
from the publications of The Record Society, wherein we find that
John Wade was chaplain to Henry I., King of England, (11 00-
1135). Less happy was the lot of Godwin Wade, who in the Pipe
Rolls of the twelfth year of the reign of King Henry II. (1166) is
recorded as a fugitive from justice. In the rolls of this period
also occur the names of Wilhelmus, Juliana, Henricus, and Galfrid-
us Wade. Madox in his folio Antiquities of the Exchequer (17 11),
page 386, refers to a Richard Wade as early as the seventh year
of the reign of King Richard I. (1196). and in the feet of Fines
for the county of Norfolk for the second year of King John, (1200)
we find the suit of William de Eboraco (York) and Matilda his
wife, against William, son of Anketill and Thieda his wife, and
William Wade and Alveva his wife. The suit related to lands in
Lynn in the county of Norfolk, and the extract is of considerable
interest when it is remembered that the Massachusetts Wades,
came from Denver, not far from Lynn. (See Chapter III posf).
As the years roll on, the records of England bear more names
Famous English Wades. 45
of Wade. An early deed of the thirteenth century discloses the
fact that Cecilia Wade, late the wife of William Wade, of Welyn-
tone, (Wellington) conveyed to Alan Wade and Alice his wife, cer-
tain land in the common field of Welyntone, part adjoining the
path leading from Overwardyne towards le Lydegate and part in
Bereyr, in the county of Hereford. One Alfredus Wade is entered
on the records of the feet of Fines in 1204, and a Henry de la
Wade in 1225. John Wade was a bailiff of London in 1230 and
Nicholaus Wade conveys land in 1239. In 1241 Henry de la
Wade sued William Amyot for two and a half virgates of land in
Norton in the county of Oxford, as his right in the estate of which
Henry de la Wade, his father died seized in the time of King John,
(i. e. 1199-1216). The inquisitions post mortem of 36 Henry III.
(1252) disclose the death of one Johannes Wade, possessed of
lands at Haveringe and Renham (? Raynham) in the county of
Essex. Haveringe, or more correctly, Havering-atte-Bower was a
favorite suburban residence of Edward the Confessor, King of
England, and the ruins of his castle there are still visible.
EngUsh records, under date of 51 Henry III. (1267), refer to
one Magister Henricus Wade as holding lands direct of the king,
and the title Magister (Sir) is indicative of considerable social
prominence in those early days. We find that his wife was the
daughter of Wilhelmus le Vein, and had been, before her mar-
riage to Henricus Wade, the wife and widow of Simon Jurdan.
In this same year an Inquisition post mortem records the death
of Henry Wade, holding lands in Cocham (Cosham) and Braye,
in the county of Berkshire. This Bray, it may be interesting to
remark, is the village famous for its time-serving Vicar.
One John de la Wade was living and in litigation in 1272 (the
first year of the reign of Edward I.,) and one Henry Wade was,
according to Madox's Antiquities of the Exchequer (p. 591), the com-
mittee of the manor of Selveston, in this same year, but before the
death of Henry III. In 1280, John Wade junior, of Wytton in
Norfolk, was defendant to a plea concerning lands in that county,
while Blount's Tenures is the authority for the statement that in
this year, (Pleas of the Crown, 8 Edw. I., roll 26, back), one
Rowland de Arley and one Henry Wade held the moiety of a cer-
tain serjeanty in Cosham, in the county of Southampton, by find-
46 The Wade Genealogy.
ing a certain footman to keep the Castle of Porchester, in time of
war, for forty days, at their own proper costs. This was the time
of military tenures, when feudalism waxed and the race of robber
barons flourished. The tenures and services varied, as in 1285
we find from Blount and the Pleas of the Crown that " Henry
de la Wade held ten pounds of land in Staunton, in the county of
Oxford, by the serjeanty of carrying a gerfalcon every year before
our lord the king, whenever he shall please to hunt with such
falcon, at the cost of the said lord the king."
Widespread and numerous indeed was this ancient and lusty
family, as from the De Banco roll 64, of 14 Edward I. (1286), we
find that Robert Wade and Isabel, his wife, were defendants to a
plea relating to lands in the county of York. As early as this
same year, one John Wade attained a high dignity as sheriff of
London, and in the following year an inquisition post mortem
reveals the death of Henry de la Wade, holding lands in Bletches-
don and Staunton, in the county of Oxford. This was probably
the man who had to find the gerfalcon for the king's hawking
parties, and a word or two as to the nature and necessity for
these inquisitions post mortem may here be in order.
From the time of the Norman Conquest of 1066 down to the
date in the reign of Charles H. , when feudal tenures were abol-
ished, all land in England, with few and unimportant exceptions,
was held by the tenure of knight service, military in all its inci-
dents. Thus the Conquerer granted a whole county to one of his
barons, on condition that he found so many horse and foot sol-
diers, in case of war or on demand. The baron subinfeudated or
divided the land among his own retainers on like conditions.
Then when a tenant died it became of interest and necessity to
the lord to enquire who was the heir and from whom the military
services were due. .For this purpose an inquisition post mortem
was held. This particular inquisition found " that Johannes de
la Wade, son and heir of the said Henry de la Wade, was his
next heir, and was of full age and ability to render the said
service."
There is an early will preserved in the Court of the Hustings in
the city of London, and dated about 1297, which shows that one
of the Wade family was a landowner in London at this date. By
Famous English Wades. 47
his will, John de Cudington devised to his son-in-law Robert de
Piphearst and Juliana, his wife, a tenement at Garlickhithe (/>)
subject to an annual rent charge of four shillings (about one dollar)
in favor of John Wade, his heirs and assigns.
But Fortune, the fickle jade, changed for the Wades, as in 1298
one John de la Wade, who had been sheriff of Lincolnshire, fell upon
evil days and into the clutches of the law of which he had been the
executive officer. Madox's Exchequer Antiquities records his re-
moval from the Marshalsea prison to the Fleet prison, but tells us
neither of his offence nor his fate. He may have been a primeval
" boodler," but far more probably had failed to arrest some one
who had offended the king.
An inquisition ad quod damnum of 31 Edward I. (1303), tells us
of John, son of Henry Wade, and an inquisition post mortem of
the same year discloses the death of a Johannes Wade possessed
of land at Cosham, near Wymerynge, in the county of Southampton,
and Claydon in the county of Buckingham. A will of John Wade,
preserved in the Court of the Hustings of the City of London and
of the date of 1307, devises to the testator's brother Adam Wade,
a tenement in the parish of St. James, Garlickhithe (/>), in the city
of London ; to Alice, his sister, a brewhouse in the parish of St.
Michael le Queenhithe for life, with remainder to pious uses ; and
mentions Cecilia Wade, the testator's deceased sister and her
daughter Matilda.
Royal favor seems to have smiled on one Adam Wade as early
as 1307, as we find him providing the urn for the coronation of
King Edward II. in that year. In 1309, an inquisition post mor-
tem finds the death of one John Wade, possessed of estates in Ox-
fordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire, leaving his brother,
Henry Wade, of the- age of 30 years and more, as his heir.
A curious will of Adam Wade of London, dated about 1310, and
preserved in the Court of the Hustings of the City of London, is
probably that of the worthy city tradesman who assisted at Ed-
ward II. 's coronation. It devises rents and stores called " Helle "
in Fleet Street and others in Holbornestreete and at le Queenhithe,
with two* quarries in the vill of Hensley upon trust for sale, makes
(/). The hithes were the old wharves or docks on the banks of the
Thames, in the City of London.
48 The Wade Genealogy.
bequests in favor of Christiana his wife and mentions Adam de
Bandone, testator's nephew ; his sister Alice ; and leaves one mark
for the work on London Bridge.
It was an early Wade who went to the wars with the Scots, as
the Parliamentary writs of 4 Edward II. return a certain Richard
Wade as one of the servientes performing military service due
from the Bishop of Worcester, and as such, present at a muster
and array at Tweedmouth on September 18, 13 11. The inquisi-
tions post mortem of the following year disclose Juliana, the wife
of John Wade, and, in right of her dower, possessing in Claydon,
Buckinghamshire, a messuage and twenty-five acfes of land.
Thomas Wade is returned in the Parliamentary writs of 6 Edward
II. (13 13) as vianiicaptor (^) of Hugo le Blund, knight of the shire
(member of Parliament), returned for Berkshire, and in 13 16
(9 Edw. II.) one Richard Wade suffered an escheatment of his
lands in Fresselay, Calverlay and Fairley in the county of York.
As to Calverlay, attention is drawn to the pedigree of Wade of
King Cross, printed later, this Richard being possibly a remote
ancestor of this family, and being also, and as probably, the man
who is recorded on the Parliamentary writs for this year as the
lord of the township of Fairley in the same county of York.
A certain Roger Wade is returned in 1322 as one of the manu-
captors of Petrus Dewerey, knight of the shire returned for South-
ampton, and the Boroughbridge Roll of Arms gives us the name of
Sire Robert de Wadeville as fighting at the battle of Borough-
bridge on March 16, 1322. He bore for arms: Argent, three
chevrons, between a bordure, sable, and thus early we get the first
instance of coat armor appertaining to the Wades.
In 1325 one Adam Wade was defendant to a plea of trespass,
in the county of Lancaster (Coram Rege Rolls, Michaelmas, 18
Edw. II.), and in the following year, 1326, a certain Thomas
Wade, of Kenton and Soham, this latter place in Cambridgeshire
attended the muster and array of the Hundred of Loos in the
county of Suffolk, next after the feast of St. George (24 April, 19
Edward II.).
Of high antiquity was the name of Wade in the west of Eng-
{q). Manucaptor i.e. mainprize, bail, or surety for another.
Famous English Wades.
49
land — those outworks wild of mystic Camelot where Arthur and
his knights held sway. Wadelus held Wadefaste in the parish of
Whitstone, north Cornwall in the time of Edward the Confessor and
prior to the Norman invasion or the Doomsday survey. Dunken's
Cornish Brasses is authority for the statement that Wadebridge in
that county was anciently called Wade's Bridge, while William of
Worcester in his Itinerary (written about 1350) supplies the rea-
son for this place name in stating that " Wadebridge, a bridge of
Sire Robert de Wadeville, 1322.
3 Chevrons between a bordure, sable. Battle of jBorough
Argent
bridge, Mch. 16, 1322
(From the Boroughbridge Roll of Arms).
seventeen arches was situate near the manor house of Wade."
A family tradition of the Cornish Wades asserts a lineal descent
from the patriarch Job (!), and however true or fictitious this may be
the Subsidy Rolls for the County record a William Wade as early
as 1327 in the parish of Saint Advent, Deanery of Trigg Minor,
Cornwall.
A certain Thomas Wade, of Eyffelde in the county of Northamp-
ton, appears from quo warranto proceedings in 1330, (3 Edw. III.)
50 The Wade Genealogy.
to have been seized of a messuage and one acre of land there, in
the right of his wife, Agatha, daughter of Elena Hobbs of Fyffelde,
and his son Richard Wade, sued Emma, the daughter of Philip
Alleyn de Fyffelde, to recover possession of this property.
The records of 133 1 disclose Alicia Wade, Robert Wade, and
Henry Wade as plaintiffs in certain quo warranto proceedings at
the Derby Assize of that year (4 Edw. Ill) and the will of Emma,
wife of William Payntot, of Esingwald (Easingwold, Yorkshire),
dated in 1346, contains a bequest of sixpence to Walter Wade.
We find John Wade, a priest, presented by Lord Robert de Tif-
ford, of Hacunby in the county of Lincoln, to the church of Ha-
cunby in 1347, (Chancery Files, 329). In 1349, a plaintiff in a
suit to recover lands at Weldon, in the county of Oxford, pro-
pounded a pedigree commencing with one Henry de la Wade as
the common ancestor, living in the time of Henry III. (i.e. 12 16-
1272). A William Wade of Hermodesworth and Alice his wife,
were parties to a fine of lands at Colham in the county of Middle-
sex in 135 1, in November 1352; one Robert Wade of Sempyngham
in the county of Lincoln, was presented to the vicarage of Norton
Disney in the same county, by the Master of the Temple, and in
24 and 25 Edward III. (135 1-2) William Wade was one of the de-
fendants in a fine levied as to lands at Adderley in Shropshire.
There were other Wades of the tonsure and black robe in these
days, as the inquisitions post mortem tell us of a Johannes Wade,
a chaplain or chantry priest, in the county of Rutland in 31 Ed-
ward III. (1358), and the same class of records reveal a William
Wade in 1365 as possessing the manor of Glarton in Lincolnshire,
of which in 1377, Margareta, his wife, suffered an escheatment.
One John Wade, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, is
mentioned in the rolls of 32 Edw. III. (1359), and another of the
same name was basking in the favor of the king in 137 1, as the Ex-
chequer Roll shows him as receiving a pension of two pence daily,
no inconsiderable sum in those days. Nor was he alone of the king's
household, as a Robert Wade appears on the same roll as the
king's carter and one Gilbert Wade as the king's valet.
We turn again to the wills preserved in the Court of the Hust-
ings of the city of London, to find in the will of Henry Hale, a
fishmonger, dated in 1375, that he mentions his apprentice, John
Famous English Wades.
51
Wade, while the will of John Blakenyr, another and contemporary
fishmonger, bequeaths to John Wade, fishmonger, " my best sword
and bokeler (buckler) covered with plates of silver."
One John Wade was clerk to John Clervaus, Archdeacon of
Suffolk, whose will is dated in 1383, and an ancient deed pre-
served in the English Public Record Office, shows that on May
8, 1386 (9 Richard II.), Thomas Catwy and Joan, his wife, demised
or leased to John Wade of Harev/ell " their manor of Paynelis-
court in Barewoodscourt in the county of Berkshire, except the
high chambers of the said manor, which were reserved for the
lord and lady of the manor when they stayed there, and except
the granary."
In 1393,(16 Richard II), an inquisition post mortem records
that a certain Johannes Wade and others, held lands in London
John Wade, Sheriff of London.
for the Prior and Convent of Canterbury in Kent. An early Lin-
coln will of Richard de Tretton, proved at Lincoln, December 30,
1395, mentions a William Wade.
Philip de Waude was presented to the vicarage of Edmonton in
Middlesex in 1397, according to Lyson's Environs of London^ III.,
267, and Stow's Survey of London is authority for the fact that in
1398 (22 Richard II.), one John Wade, fishmonger, was one of the
sheriffs of London with John Warnar.
From The Arms of the Sheriffs and Mayors of London, we find
that this early city official bore for his coat of arms, a saltire be-
tween four escallops, or. It is noteworthy how frequently the sal-
tire and escallops appear in the Wade coat of arms. (With the
prefatory remark that no heraldic distinctions accord with our
52
The Wade Genealogy.
American and republican institutions, we saying, as Kipling's True
Thomas said in his Last Rhymes :
" And what should I make wi' blazon and belt,
Wi' keep and tail and seizin and fee,
And what should I do wi' page and squire
That am a king in my own countrie ?
Those interested in the subject may with advantage peruse the
article on Heraldry in the Encycloptsdia Britannica with some
modern works, such as those by Boutell and Cussans. An indis-
putable descent from an armigerous family, must, in addition, be
strictly that of an eldest son in every generation, in order to entitle
the descendant to bear the family arms without a difference or
mark of cadency. The coats of arms in this book have been care-
fully and exactly prepared by an able herald, who will be prepared
to furnish hand-colored copies of any heraldic illustrations on
moderate terms.)
Lyson in his Environs of Lo7idon, II, 23, refers under the manor
of Haliwick, Friarn Barnet, to the fact that this manor in the lat-
ter part of the reign of Edward III. was the property of William
Olneye, citizen of London. His wife Isabell afterward married
John Wade, who died seized of it, 3 Hen. IV. (1402). Her son,
John Olneye, was her heir. The will of John Wade, of Bristol, in
the county of Somerset, dated in 1 404, is in the Lambeth Registry
(223 Register Arundell, p. 1.).
Richard Wade, armiger, is mentioned in a grant of land near
Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, under date March 17, 7 Hen.
IV. (1406). The Exchequer Rolls tell of the good fortune of
one Robert Wade in 5 Henry V. (i. e. 141 8), he being recorded
as having married Coldship, called the Rose of Cooshithe, in
London. One John Wade was the executor of the will of Ger-
ard Usflete, knight, of Yorkshire, which will was proved Septem-
ber 13, 1420, and an account of an arbitration of May 20, 1422,
preserved in the Public Record Oihce, mentions one William
Wade as a warden of the church of St. Margaret, Moysy (Moul-
esey ?), in Middlesex.
It was possibly an early ancestor of the New Jersey Wades
(see po%t chapter IV.), one William Wade, chaplain, who on Sep-
tember 28, 1430, was a party to a bond of David Lewis, rector of
Famous English Wades. 53
St. Fagan's in Wales, and the fact is interesting in relation to the
family tradition of that branch of the Wades that their ancestors
came from the Principality of Wales. If this be St. Fagan's in
Glamorganshire, a reference to the map will shew its proximity
to Tintagel and Bodmin, where an old family of Wades were set-
tled.
An early will of Thomas Barree, rector of Ffylyngham, in the
county of Lincoln, proved at Lincoln October 5, 1431, bears the
name of an Edward Wade, as one of the attesting witnesses and
the feet of Fines for the county of Cornwall for 18 Henry VI.
(1440), mention John Wade and Johanna, his wife, as interested in
lands at Camelford and Tregewe in that county. (See hereon
posf).
We find from the will of Thomas Beek or Beck, once a Bishop
of Lincoln, which will was dated February 11, 1446, that a William
Wade received a legacy of one hundred shillings in it. The Coram
Rege Roll of 1448, refers to Walter Wade and his wife, Margena,
and their daughter, Johanna, who became the wife of Nicholas
Trenesh. They seem to have resided near Liskeard in the county
of Cornwall.
Letters of Administration to the estate of Robert \^^ade of Al-
vely in the diocese of London, one of the yeomen of the crown,
dated June 24, 1462, are preserved in the Bishop's Registry at
Lambeth (49 a. Bourgchier).
A John Wade, clerk (i. e. minister of the gospel), is mentioned
in an early deed preserved in the Public Record Office, dated
March 20, 1483, referring to lands in the county of Kent, while the
Court of the Hustings of the City of London contains the will of
one John Cowper, dated February 14, 1485, devising his tenement
in the parish of Estchepe (Eastcheap) St. Leonard's, in London to
William Wade, Master of the College of St. Gregory at Sudbury,
in the county of Suffolk, and the brethren of this same monastery.
One Lawrence Wade, who was professed as a Benedictine monk
of Canterbury, England, in 1467, translated into English rhyme in
1497, the life of Thomas a Becket, from the original by Herbert
Bosham, written in Latin about 1180.
To the stranger in blood this enumeration of the early Wades
and their deeds may possibly be about as interesting as a recital of
54 The Wade Genealogy.
the Homeric navy list, but to the bearers of the name it is sub-
mitted that no otlier method of treatment was possible in regard to
the earlier, and necessarily fragmentary, instances from the Eng-
lish records. To attempt to connect these disjecta membra would
require the assurance of that prince of pedigree-forgers, the late
Major-General Plantagenet Harrison, once claimant to the throne
of England on a pedigree of his own manufacture ! On the other
hand, to have omitted these deeds and honors of the early Wades
would have been the representation of Hamlet with the melancholy
Dane left out of the cast. These results, therefore, of some
twenty years searching of records or favors from transatlantic
correspondence are inserted thus. To have omitted them would
have been to have left unwritten one of the most interesting parts
of the book, from the genealogist's point of view.
It seems that Wade was an early prototype of P. D. Armour,
engaged in supplying the British army with food, for in Dasent's
Acts of the Privy Council, under date of February 1548, we find
that Roger Wade was ordered to be paid ;^2oo for providing but-
ter, cheese and bacon for the North.
Another member of the family was less fortunate, for the same
work informs us under date of August 20, 1549, that £(i was paid
for bringing Richard Wade out of Suffolk (as a prisoner for a
hearing before the Privy Council). His luck held good, for on
August 22nd, £\ was paid to him as "sent hyther out of Suffolk
and accused as a styrrer of sedecion whereof he hath cleared him-
self."
Under date of Jan. 18, 155 1, Dasent's Acts of the Privy Council
mentions a letter ordered to be written to Sir Richard Waide, one
of the Justices of Berkeshire, as to woodcutting in the woods, ap-
pertaining to the Busshopprike of Winchester, in County of Berk-
shire.
The will of Elizabeth Onley, dated June 28, 1554, and proved
in the Prerogative court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, on
August II, 1556, (Ketchyn, II.) mentions her late husband Robert
Wade, and her son-in-law, Guye Wade. One John Hanson, of
Woodhouse, in the County of York, (buried at Elland, aged 82,
in 1559, and so born in 1477,) married secondly, Margaret, the
daughter of Robert Wade. His will dated June 11, and proved
Famous English Wades. 55
August 29, 1559, mentions Robert Wade, deceased, his late broth-
er-in-law.
Lyson's, in his Envirom of London, IV. 583, dealing with the
parish of Cheam, Middlesex, says that a manor there was in the
tenure of Humphrey Wade, temp,, Edw. VI., to whom it had been
assigned by Thomas Fromonds.
Proceeding, therefore, with the numerous instances of early
Wades, we find from the Herald's Visitation of the county of
Norfolk, that one Margaret, the daughter of John Bacon, of
Harleston, (whose will was dated October 22, 15 n,) married a
John Wade, while the De Banco Common Roll of Hilary Term, 6
Henry VIII. (15 15) mentions Margaret, Alicia, Anna, and Eliz-
abeth Coke, daughters and co-heiresses of one John Coke, of
Esthaddon, in the county of Northampton, the first three of whom
married John, William, and Thomas Wade, respectively.
The Subsidy Roll for the county of Norfolk, of 15 Henry VIII.
(1523,) contains the name of Thomas Wade, of East Rudham, as
one of those then possessing over £\o, (i. e. $200,) in lands or
goods. Glover's Visitation of the county of Warwick, notes the
marriage of Robert Wade to Anne, daughter of Christopher Lister,
about 1530, and the feet of Fines for the county of Middlesex of
33 Henry VIII. (1542) refer to one Guy Wade as possessing a fish-
ery at Stratford-atte-Bowe.
One William Wade was one of the attesting witnesses to the will
of Thomas Bakon, of Helmyngham, in the county of Suffolk, the
will being proved at Bury St. Edmund's, February 27, 1535.
The year 1536 was memorable for the voyage of the ships Min-
ion and Trinity to the shores of Newfoundland. It was one of the
earliest, if not the earliest, of the purely English voyages of dis-
covery to the New World. The Minion bore among its passengers,
Armigel Waad, whose exploits on this voyage are more fully dealt
with later, and in this chapter.
The Herald's Visitation of Leicestershire in 1619, found that
one Thomas Gregory, of Eiton, in the county of Nottingham, had
married Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Wade, merchant and
Mayor of Coventry, in the county of Warwick, who was living 38
Henry VIII., (1546) and died 16 Elizabeth, (1573.)
The Calendar of Pleadings of the Duchy of Lancaster discloses
56 The Wade Genealogy.
the fact that from 1561 to 1565, Christopher Wade, Ehzabeth
Wade, and others were in Utigation as regards land of the manor
of Coggeshall in the county of Essex, of which one Robert Wade
had died seized, and a Herald's visitation of the covmty of Lincoln
relates the marriage of Randolph Wade of Windsor in Berkshire
to Fayth, the daughter of Charles Yerburgh of Yerburgh (Yar-
borough, in Lincolnshire), about the year 1562. The Visitation
of Yorkshire for 1563-4 mentions Robert Wade as the husband of
Kateren, daughter of John Vavasour.
The Herald's Visitation of the county of Oxford of 1566-7 notes
the marriage of Alice, daughter of John Wade of Hokenorton to
Walter Calcote of Williscote, and the will of Thomas Wade of
Bildeston in the county of Suffolk is proved in the court of the
Commissary of Bury St. Edmund's, Archdeacon of Sudbury, on
September 18, 1570. It is dated January 23, 13 Elizabeth, (1569)
and refers to his wife, Margery, and his brothers, John and
William Wade. One John Wade of Framesden is a witness to the
will.
In the church of Bildeston in Suffolk is a monumental brass to
William Wade, one of the High Constables of the Hundred, who
died Feb. 19th, 1599, Alice his wife and their six children, 2
sons and 4 daughters. The figure of William Wade has dis-
appeared.
In the British Record office under date June 1575 are articles
exhibited (/. e. criminal proceedings) respecting Mr. Wade not
conforming to the statute De Niimero Scholan'uni, from Avhich it
would seem that a limit as to number of pupils was placed upon
the Wackford Squeerses of Tudor days.
One John Wade was Mayor of Bristol in 1577 (19 Elizabeth).
At Ipswich, in Suffolk was proved in 1579, the will of Agnes Ba-
con of Helmingham, in that county, dated 17 Elizabeth (1575),
and mentioning her daughter, Johane Wade, and her godson,
Robert Wade, while the Herald's Visitation of the county of War-
wick refers to Thomas Wade of Addingham parish as the husband
of Isabel, the daughter of Arthur Monhault, alias Maude, of West
Redlesden, in the county of York, and living in 1585.
The register of the church at Seaton, in the county of Rutland,
records the marriage, on February 20, 1589, of Robert Wade and
Famous English Wades. 57
Anne Johnson, while from the parish of Goathurst, in the count}-
of Somerset, we find the baptism of Roger Wade, son of Roger
Wade, parson, and Alice, his wife, on September i, 1594, and the
burial of Roger Wade, parson, on June 10, 1595.
Among the epigrams written by Daniel Rogers in the last quar-
ter of the 1 6th century, and now preserved in the Marquis of
Hertford's MSS., there is one on Erasmus Wade in Book 3. a can-
celled one on William Wade, and another on the same person.
{ffistorical MSS. Report I]^., /, 2^2-j). An epigram on Sir Wil-
liam Wade from the Earl of Leicester's MSS. will be found later
in this work.
In the MSS. of the Marquis of Salisbury, preserved at Hatfield
House, is a statement by one William Pities under date of August
9, 1592, that a certain Thomas Wade, a merchant's servant of
London, went to Spain in a small flyboat of Zealand, was put in
prison, and afterwards died in the hospital.
The calendar of pleadings of the Duchy of Lancaster discloses
Anthony Wade, Samuel Wade and others in litigation as to land
at Wakefield and Sowerby in the county of York, in 37 Elizabeth
(1595), and in the same year one John Wade, husbandman, ser-
vant to Thomas Lynn, of North Tudenham, in the county of Nor-
folk, is returned as a Popish recusant. James Favel, of Keirly,
in the parish of Kirkby Overblow, in the count}^ of York, who
died about 1653, is recorded as marrying Isabel, daughter of
Wade of Monmouth, near Boroughbridge, in the same
county. The marriage licence is dated in 1599 and gives the
place of the bride's residence and of the ceremony as Wilberfoss.
The Calendar of State Papers tells us of a Robert Waadson ad-
venturing ;^iio in the East India Company in January, 160S, of
Nathaniel and Timothy Wade as interested in the same company in
1 618, of Thomas Waad in 1622 and Ralph Wade in the following
year.
In 1624 William Wade was supplying water-casks to ships
bound to Surat, and on October 16, 1624, Robert Wade died on
the Charles River in Virginia, accidently shot in the arm. In
1626 the executors of Thomas Wade sold ;^6oo stock in the East
India Company, and a boy named William Wade was in Surat in
February, 1629.
58 The Wade Genealogy.
We learn from Baker's Northampton, page 87, that on the north
wall of the chancel of Brampton Church is a small marble tablet
inscribed:— "EDWARDUS WADE, Oxoniensis Coll. Exon. Artimn
Magister. per 32 An'os ecclesiae Brampton reverendus Presbyter.
Filius Edwardi Wade, quondam civis Exoniensis. Pro pietate
colendissimi. Deo Patri, quam Integra vita loquantur alii ipse
dicam sanctissima morte gratissimus. Aetate simul et doctrina Con-
summatus. an'os vixit 65. Vesicae doloribus vel spectatore Dis-
trahentibus distorta potius quam saluta natura defunctus poenarum
calcaribus et flagellis Deo incitante Stadium exegit Miserrimum :
mirabili potentia foelicissimum. Christiani militia probatus athleta.
Christiani perseverantia moriens. Credo equidem nee vana fides.
Christiani gloria et triumpho in coelis Servum suum Deus aeterne
composuit. Ut incitator anima Edvardi Wade ad coelos : festin-
aret corporis sui in habitos exuvias carnis molestam tunicam.
Tanquam ruptus Elias pallium deposuit. Novemb. die 18. a'o
D'ni. 1635."
This Edward Wade was, it may be said, presented to the rec-
tory of Holdenby , December 13, 1603, and held the living of
Brampton together with that of Holdenby, until his death as above
chronicled. The monument also records the deaths of his three
children as follows: — "Robert Wade, May 20, 1625; Isabel,
1618; and Mary, 1627." William Wade married Agnes Cromwell
at Henbury, Gloucestershire, Jvme 9, 1600 (r).
Wright's History of t lie County of Essex, informs us that Adrian
Mott of Braintree in that county married Jane Wade about 1604,
and the Registers of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, London,
under date of February 2, 1608, record the marriage of Thomas
Wade and Helen Pelleter.
A curious instance of the association of a Wade with one of the
names sacred to us as one of the principals among the Pilgrim
Fathers and in that selfsame parish of Austerfield, whence sprang
the seed of that great planting, appears from the will of Robert
Bradford of Austerfield, in the county of York, who was buried
April 23, 1609. He mentions Grace Wade, a servant, in his wilL
Fortunate indeed would we be if for a brief moment we could un-
roll the past and trace this Grace Wade. We might then, per-
(r). See Notes and Qi(cries. 9th Series, III., May 13, 1899, p. 367.
Famous English Wades. 59
haps, learn more of the three sturdy yeomen, men of worship and
substance, who planted the Massachusetts branch of the Wade
family as early as 1632. In England, alas, civil strife and most
negligent clergy are responsible for the loss or destruction of
scores of priceless church records. Unknown to all but One, our
heroes dead and unrecorded lie.
The will of Richard Wade of Hauton in the county of Lan-
caster, yeoman, dated November 23, 1610, and proved at York,
May 24, 161 1 gives to his youngest son, Richard Wade, his copy-
holds in Halifax in the county of York — to his eldest son John
Wade, three parts of all his implements of husbandry — to his son
Richard, certain furniture, — to his daughter, Elizabeth, ;^4o. — to
his grand-daughter, Susan Towneley, daughter of Thomas
Towneley, £4. — to Ralph and Mary Rushton, children of his son-
in-law, Ralph Rushton, £2 each. — to his daughter Ellen's base
son, forty shillings, — and the residue of his estate to his seven
children, John, Robert, Richard, Elizabeth, Anne, Ellen, and
Jennet. He gave to his wife, Lettice, a yearly rentcharge,
mentioned Richard Crooke of Pendle, late father-in-law of his son
John Wade, and John Wade of Hauton, and he seems to have
been a tenant of one Richard Towneley of Towneley, Esquire, to
whom, as one of his executors, he left fifteen pounds in gold.
The will of William Bacon, proved in 161 o. left the sum of
twenty shillings to one Jane Wade of Helmingham in the county of
Suffolk, and the Bishop of Lincoln's Marriage Licences record the
licence for the marriage of William Brocklebank of Alford in the
county of Lincoln, draper, and Elizabeth Wade of Boston in the
same county, under date of August 3, 161 2, and state that they
had relatives living at Stickney in Lincolnshire. Berry's Sussex
Genealogies, p. 154 mention the marriage of John Gilbert of
Willingdon and afterwards of Bletchingdon in the county of Sussex
gentleman, (who was buried at Willingdon, April 16, 1627) to
Joan, the daughter of — Wade of Willingdon, who was buried there,
September 4, 16 18.
The Marriage Licences of the Bishop of Lincoln record, under
date of June 11, 162 1, the marriage of Brian Wade of Kingerly,
gentleman, and Susanne Harper of Lincoln, spinster. It is clear
from the inclusion of Bryan Wade and Thomas Wade of Kingerly
6o The Wade Genealogy.
among the list of gentr)' of the county at the Herald's Visitation
of 1634, that this was a family of note and importance, and in this
regard it is a matter for regret that the parish registers of Kingerly
have suffered the not-infrequent fate: It is fortunate however
that in the Diocesan registry at Lincoln are preserved transcripts
of the Kingerly registers, which afford us the following particulars
as to this family : —
162 1, June II, Brian Waad, gent?, and Susan Harper, married.
1622, Nov. 26, Bapt. Thomas, their son.
1624, Nov. 23, Bapt. Jane, their daughter.
1625, Dec. 26, Bapt. Jane, (2), their daughter.
1627, June 18, Bapt. Elizabeth, their daughter.
1629, July 20, Bapt. Susanna, their daughter.
1631, Nov. I, Bapt. Frances, their daughter.
1635, Feb. 2, Bapt. Dorothye, their daughter.
1644, Aug. I, Buried Lawrence, their son.
1671, Jan. 19, Buried Thomas Wade, gentleman.
1691, Dec. 2S, Buried, Frances Wade, widow.
The will of William White of London, linendraper, dated
August 20, 1622, and proved June 26, 1627, refers to land in
Virginia, and has for an attesting witness, one John Wade. The
Herald's Visitation of the county of Gloucester in 1623 refers to
the marriage of Walter Kemeys to Sara, daughter of William
Wad^T of Stoke in the same county.
The registers of the church of St. Dunstan in the East, in
London, record the marriage of John Yelles and Elizabeth Wade
under date of January 29, 1624, Avhile the Lincoln Marriage
Licences of February 15, 1625, include the marriage licence of
John Allison, yeoman, and Agnes Wade, spinster, both of Wigtoft,
in the county of Lincoln.
The Calendar of British State Papers (Colonial) under date of
Nov. 17 1629, p. 103 contain abstracts of the Depositions of
Capts. David and Thos. Kirke, John Love and Thomas Wade,
factors for the adventurers in Canada, before Sir. Hen. Marten,
Judge of the admiralty. They left Gravesend on 26 March, 1629,
with 6 ships and 2 pinnaces. Arrived at Great Gaspe on 15 June
and at Tadousac and Quebec, between that and 3rd of July.
Traded with the natives for skins. Thos. Kirke with 200 men
demanded the surrender of Quebec about 3rd July, which was
given up on the 9th. 17 13 beaver skins were taken in the fort,
and came into the Company's hands.
Famous English Wades. 6i
In the Marquis of Ormonde's Mss., at Kilkenny Castle, there
are numerous letters to and from Richard Wade, in Ireland, be-
tween the dates of Dec. 14, 1631 and Oct. 30, 1657.
The church registers of Maxey, in the county of Northampton,
chronicle the marriage of Roger Wade and Anne Grange, on June
8, 1629, and the baptism of Judith, daughter of Thomas Wade, on
October 9, 163 1. A daughter of John Henry, of Whitehall, Lon-
don, gentleman to Philip, Earl of Pembroke, and afterwards Keep-
er of the Orchard at Whitehall, and Page of the Back Stairs to
James, Duke of York, married Wade. Her mother was
Mrs. Magdalen Rochdale, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Westmin-
ster, (who died March i, 1645), ^^^ her brother was the Rev.
Philip Henry, of Broad Oak, Malpas, in the county of Chester,
(who was born 1631 and died 1696).
This was the age of colonization in Virginia, New England and
New Jersey. It was but natural that the namesakes of ' the Eng-
lish Columbus,' Armigel Wade, should have considerable part in
this great emigration. Accordingly we find, in Virginia, from 1646
or earlier, the names of Wades, some even bearing the peculiar
Christian name of Armiger, and so undoubted descendants of the
explorer. In New England, the record dates from 1632, when
Jonathan, Nathaniel, and Nicholas Wade, wealthy yeomen of the
English county of Norfolk, settled around the present site of Bos-
ton, Massachusetts. In New Jersey, the family honor was sus-
tained by Benjamin Wade, a clothier, who was for a while in Ja_
maica. Long Island, proceeding thence to Elizabethtown, in New
Jersey, where he was one of the earliest settlers. These important
members of the family will be found fully dealt with in the follow-
ing and appropriate chapters of the present compilation.
John Dike, of London, merchant, in 1633, is recorded as marry-
ing Mary, daughter of Thomas Wade, of London, and in 1634,
Richard Allport, of London, skinner, married Alice, daughter of
John Wade, of the North. The Herald's Visitation of the county
of Oxford in 1634, records the marriage of Charnell Petty, of
Stoke, to Eleanor, daughter of Wade, of London. The
Herald's Visitation of the county of Hertford, in the same year
mentions the marriage of Alban Francis, of Salmons, to Elizabeth,
daughter and heiress to Christopher Wad and Widow of
62 The Wade Genealogy.
Westcott. The Visitation of the county of Bedford, in the same
year, chronicles the marriage of Noah Neale, of Dean, in that
county (born 1612), to Eunice, daughter of Thomas Wade, Es-
quire, and her burial at Dean, March 14, 1664.
On April 13, 1637, Anne Jessop, of Worksop, in the county of
Nottingham, married a William Wade, at Worksop. One James
Wade, of Colchester, in the county of Essex, Attorney, was from
1638 to 1 641, appointed the attorney to act for some residents of
the American colonies having property in Colchester, while a
search of the parish registers in the Island of Barbados, reveals
many instances of the name of Wade from 1640 to 1690.
One Sackville Wade is included in a list of the principal inhab-
itants of London, "of the better sort and conceived to be of the
best estate," in 1640. He seems to have resided in Castle Bay-
nard ward and in the parish of St. Bennett's, Paul's wharf. This,
apparently, is the man referred to in the Bishop's Transcripts at
Ely, of the church registers of Over, in the county of Cambridge,
wherein we find the entries: — " 1676. Jany. 10. Buried Margaret,
ye Avife of Sackville Wade, Esquire. 1676. Jany. 19. Buried
Sackville Wade, Esquire."
Dealing with Hampton and Hampton Court, Middlesex, Lysons,
in his Environs of London, V. 79, says that a tomb in the floor of
Hampton Church, commemorates James Darell, Esquire, Chief
Clerk of the Spicery, third son of John Darell of Caile Hill, Kent.
He married Catherine, daughter of Robert Waide, gentleman, and
died 1638.
A certain Sarah Stringer, daughter of Francis Stringer, of
Whiston, in the county of York (baptised June 29, 1642), married
Robert Wade of Barnby Don, in the same county, gentleman, and
one Nathaniel Waterhouse, of Halifax in the county of York, gen-
tleman (bapt. Sept. II, 1586, will dated July i, 1642, died June
3, 1645), mentions his cousin, John Wade of Skircote, in his will.
Burke also records in his Landed Gentry, that Mary Waterhouse,
daughter of Anthony Waterhouse, of Woodhouse, clothier, married
John Wade of King's Cross, in the county of York, gentleman.
(As to this family of Wade of King's Cross, see post in this chap-
ter). .
Curious indeed is an entrj' in the Diocesan records of the
Famous English Wades. 63
Bishop of Ely. From it we find that old England suffered from
the pestilent fallacy of belief in witchcraft as badly or worse than
our own pious forbears in Salem. Under date of May 30, 1647,
there appears the information of Alice Wade, wife of William
Wade of Stretham, taken upon oath before one Theo. Cartell, Esq.,
complaining of one Dorothy Ellis having touched her child's
cheek and mumbled some words, which caused the child's face to
swell and an eye to fall out !
This was the age of the Commonwealth and the unfortunate
Royalists, somewhat like our Tories or Loyalists in the Revolution,
and the Union men in the South, had to suffer at the hands of the
dominant Roundheads, and to arrange pecuniary matters with a
Committee for Compounding. On February 18, 1647, Cuthbert
Wade of Kilnsey, in Craven, in the county of York (as to this fam-
ily see pedigree hereinafter), compounded for his delinquency.
He was fined at one-sixth of the annual value of his estate, ^222
(/. e. about $1,100), for being related to the Earl of Cumberland,
and for having taken up arms against the Parliament. He is re-
corded as having voluntarily submitted, November 10, 1645, to
Colonel Edward Briggs, then commanding in chief the foot forces
in Westmoreland, according to the New Model, and as having
taken the negative oath and the national covenant.
One Edward Wade, a clergyman, of Swinford, in the county of
Leicester, appears as a dehnquent, whose benefice had been
sequestered about March 3, 1651, and a man of the same name of
Angmering, in the county of Suffolk, is recorded as owing a
recusant a debt of ^^132. Nicholas Wade, a delinquent of
Faversham, in the county of Kent compounded for his estates at
^400 on July 4, 1 65 1 and Savil Wade (probably the Sackville
Wade mentioned ante), of Over in the county of Cambridge, is
mentioned as a delinquent in April 1656. A certain Robert
Wade, of Altham in the county of Lancaster, claimed a house
seized by the Committee and refuted the charge of being a
delinquent in June 1654.
Burke, in his Latided Gentry, records the marriage (about 1650),
of Robert Clutterbuck to Sarah, daughter of John Wade, Esquire,
and Edward Barker of Dore, in the parish of Dronfield Wood-
house, in the couaty of Derby, (aged 13 in 161 1, died March 29^
64 The Wade Genealogy.
1660), married as his second wife, Dorothy Wade, widow, at
Hathersedge, on September 14, 1652.
The Calendar of the State Papers (Colonial) (1574-1660) dis-
closes a curious state of affairs in the island of Montserrat in the
West Indies. On December 6, 1654 Samuel Waad of Topsham
in Devonshire petitioned the Lord Protector Cromwell, alleging
that his son Samuel had been illegally shot to death at Montserrat
on May i, 1654 by command of Governor Roger Osborne, who
had seized his estate to the value of ;^ 12,000 and converted it to
his own use. The testimony of Henry Waade, Richard Waad and
Henry Wheeler accompanied the petition and spoke of Osborne as
an Irishman with Irish accomplices. On January 29, 1655 Crom-
well referred the petition to General Disborowe, the Earl of
Mulgrave, Colonel Montagu and Sir Gilbert Pickering for their
report. The other side of the story appears under date December
31, 1655, when Robert Oshoxne, (presumedly the Governor or some
relation), petitioned that he was the guardian of one Anthony
Briskett, whose mother, the relict of Anthony Briskett deceased, had
married Samuel Waad; that Waad had possessed himself of the
estate and had been condemned for a mutiny. Osborne prayed
an enquiry and that the orphan might be continued in his father's
estate. Unfortunately the ultimate decision as to Waad's murder
or execution does not appear in the state papers.
One John Wade signs the registers at English Bicknor in the
county of Gloucester, in 1656, and was apparently the vicar of the
parish at that date, while the registers of St. Margaret's, Lee,
in the county of Kent, record the mariage of John Hanford of Lee
and Mary Wade of Hoath, as solemnized on June 12, 1660.
Thomas Waade was in the isle of St. Christopher, West Indies,
in 1666, and a Richard Waad was a settler in the island of Nevis,
West Indies, in 1668.
Robert Wade of Lopsham, in the county of Suffolk, gentleman,
was supervisor of the will of Thomas Smith of Thranderton, in
Suffolk, gentleman, in 1665, and the Herald's Visitation of the
county of Berks in 1664-5, records that Mary, daughter of Timo-
thy Wade, of London, merchant, was married to Richard Bigge of
Hains Hill in Hurst, Berkshire, who was born in 16 13. Mary
Wade, his second wife, is described as the sole heiress of her father
fct .! « . t
Famous English Wades. 65
and relict of Edward Cooke, D.D. A Herald's Visitation of the
county of Dorset in 1665, mentions the marriage of Phellip Grey,
of Askerwell, to Wade.
A deed, in the compiler's possession, dated in 1664, and made
between John Wade of Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, and
Francis Edmund, Samuel Coleman and Joseph Coleman, all of the
town of Ipswich, relates to lands in Holpitt and Drenkeston, in
the county of Suffolk, and bears the quaint signatures of John
Wade and other parties.
The registers of the church of Barnston, near Great Uunmow,
in Essex, record the marriage of Margaret Wade and Mr. Nicho-
las CoUard on April 7, 1670, and the bride's burial on October 10
of the same year. The marriage of Thomas Wade to Elizabeth
Lane appears from the church registers of Micheldean, in the
county of Gloucester, in 1676. " Cosen Jaine Waide of Barnstone,
in the county of Nottingham, and her two sons " are mentioned as
legatees in the will of Elizabeth Sheppeardson of Owsthorpe, in
that county, dated March 29, 1661, and proved at York on June
14, 1 68 1, while the will of William Wade, late of Westham, in Sus-
sex, yeoman, bound to Pennsylvania in America, speaks of his-
brothers, Edmund and Thomas, and of Edmund, the eldest, and
Thomas, the younger son of his brother Edmund. This will is
dated August 24, 1682, and is proved October 28 in the same
year, in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury
(Register, Cottle, 124).
The calendar of Wills in the Court of the Hustings of the city
of London, gives us the will of Timothy Wade, Esquire, of June 26,
1685. He appears to have been a wealthy citizen of that ancient
city, devising to his wife, Martha, his Essex lands, Aldermanbury
house, Brentford, Hanwell, and Heston estates ; and bequeathing
to her plate, jewels, etc. John Nevil, of Ridgewell, Essex, died
February 27, 1687, and buried there, married Jane, daughter of
Nat. Wade of Halsted, in Essex. (Chauncey's Hertfordshire^ I.,
551). William Wade, an infant of Woodcroft, was buried Feby.
ig, 1692, at Maxey in Northamptonshire.
A certain John Wade, of London, stuffman, married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Gilbert Upton, before 1693, and is men-
tioned in his will then dated. The marriage licences cf the dio-
66 The Wade Genealogy.
cesan registry at Worcester, record on April 14, 1699, the issuance
of a licence to marry to John Wagstaff and Elizabeth Wade,
"widow, both of Wick-by-Pershore in Worcestershire, and Burke's
Landed Gentry informs us that Hugh Hammersley of Doncaster,
in the county of York, attorney, (who died December 11, 1750,
aged 50, and was buried at Doncaster), married as his first wife,
Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Wade of Doncaster.
Numerous instances of the name of Wade occur in the resfis-
ters of the church of Kirksted-cum-Langhale, in the county of
Norfolk, from 1700 to 1795, while the registers of St. Mary, Lew-
isham, in the county of Kent, record the marriage of J. Clowder
and Anne Wade on September 21, 1704, and that of Susunnah
Waide of Deptford, to Thomas Salmon, on August 27, 17 15.
An altar tomb in the churchyard of New Buckenham in the
county of Norfolk, bears for a crest a lion, passant, chained, and
for arms, Argent, 3 bucks' heads, erased, sable. It commemorates
Thomas Wade, who died October 17, 1708; Robert Wade, his
brother, who died, November 7, 1708; and John Wade, their
uncle, who died July 23, 1726 aged 73 years. Joane Upton, of
St. Margarets, Newington, near London, mentions her niece,
Elizabeth Wade, in her will dated in 17 10, while from the proceed-
ings of the Virginia Historical Society, we learn that the Reverend
Peter de la Fontaine, B. A., born 1691, and ordained by the
Bishop of London, married secondly, after March 17 15, and
probably in Virginia, one E — Wade. Mr. De la Fontaine
emigrated to Virginia in 17 16 and at one time was rector of King
William and Westover parishes in Virginia. (As to Wade of
Virginia, see Chapter V.)
Blount's Tenures, page 277, informs us that one Andrew Wade,
a master cutler of the town of Sheffield, was called in a trial as an
old man who remembered an old custom, which had been dropped
in 1 7 16. The church registers of Branfield, Suffolk, record the
burial of Elizabeth Wade on September 27, 17 17, and at St.
Martin's-at-Plain in the city of Norwich is an inscription to Samuel
Wade, who died in 1727, aged 59, and to William, Samuel, and
Anne, his children, who died in infancy. The monument bears
for arms. Azure, a saltire between 4 escallops, or, and for crest,
an escallop, or.
Famous Enc^lish Wades.
67
Burke's Landed Gentry is the authority for the marriage of
Searles Wade, gentleman, of Woodbridge, in the county of Suf-
folk, to Laura, daughter of Thomas Carthew, about 1733, and also
that Peter Wade, of the Booths, Yorkshire, married in 1744, Anne,
daughter and coheiress of Peter Wade, Esquire.
Lyson in his Environs of London, I. 472, mentions a monument
in the chancel of Rotherhithe Church to the memory of Mr. Jos-
eph Wade, King's Carver, in his Majesty's yards at Deptford and
Woolwich, who died in 1743.
Dealing with Hackney, Lysons also mentions the tombs of
Thomas Wade, Esquire, 1754, and the Reverend Nelthorpe Wade,
Arms and Crest on the monument to Samuel Wade in the Church of
St. Martin-at-Plain, Norwich, England. Arms. Azure, a saltire
between four escallops, or. Crest. An escallop, or.
Rector of Priston, county Somerset, 1781, as existing in the
churchyard of Hackney, Middlesex.
In 1757 the Manor of Cranbrook was owned by Samuel Wade
of Barking (Lyson's Environs 0/ L^07ido7i, IV. 648).
Parmenters, in Ridgewell parish, Essex, was the property of
Ambrose Wade in 1770.
In the old burying ground of the parish of St. Andrew's,
Jamaica, West Indies, is a memorial inscribed " In memory of Ja-
cob Wade, died 1759, aged 70 years," and we find that Jane Heard,
of Bridgewater, in the county of Somerset, married at Montreal,
68 The Wade Genealogy.
Canada, January, 1765, Matthew Wade, merchant, and died without
issue in Jamaica, December 5, 1783. There were English soldiers
of the name in the West Indies, as we find that Peter, the son of
Captain John Goldsmith Wade, and Louisa, his wife, born April
17, 1785, was baptised December 4, 1785, at St. Paul's Antigua,
and John Wade, captain of engineers, was buried at St. John's,
Antigua, October 15, 1786. In the burial ground of the parish of
St. Andrew's, Jamaica, is a slab inscribed : — "The body of John
Wade — July, 1807."
A monumental inscription in Lewisham church records the
deaths of Edward Wade, March 23, 1839, his wife, Margaret
Wade, February 18, 1839, and their daughter, Henrietta Mary
Anne (Wade) Emberson, April 13, 1838. But this list of dis-
jointed extracts must draw to a conclusion to make way for the
more extended entries in Herald's Visitations and public records.
Before ending, one must chronicle two deeds of shame. Captain
Cooper Wade, of H. M. S. Defiance of the British Royal Navy
was one of the six captains who so shamefully deserted brave old Ad
miral Benbow, in his sea fight with Admiral Ducasse and the French
fleet. This unworthy member of the family was tried by court
martial at Port Royal, Jamaica, with a Captain Kirby, and was shot
on his arrival at Plymouth, on board H. M. S. Bristol. That one
f f the Wades followed the lucrative but dangerous calling of Dick
Turpin appears from the Gentleman's Magazine of 1755, wherein
cne Christopher Wade is recorded as receiving sentence of death
at the Old Bailey in London, "for the highway."
But the name obtained the honor of inclusion in the fiction of
the novelist Charles Dickens, as many will recall the Miss Wade of
his Lilile Doriit, misanthrope as she was, and man-hater as he de-
picts her.
Marcus Clarke,- also in a novel entitled For the Term of
His Natural Life makes use of Armigel Wade and several
members of the Wade family as dramatis persona, but without
any historical accuracy. One instance more and the end is
reached : — It is an honorable instance, as our name is associated
with that of the " day-star of the English reformation," — the great
Wychffe. A tombstone in the church yard of Whitkirk, in the
county of York, bears the following inscriptton : — " Sacred to the
Famous English Wades. 69
Memory of MRS. KATHERINE WADE of Halton, the last de-
scendant of the family which in the 1 4th century produced the Re-
former, WYCLIFFE. She died in great peace, Jany. 29th. 1838.
Aged 75 years. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of
his saints. Ps. cxvi. 15."
Being a Miss Wycliffe, she married first Walter Sellon Gibson,
Esq., of Leeds, and bore him a son, Walter Sellon Gibson, of York.
Her husband died of the black fever, contracted while visiting the
poor, and, after a widowhood of 14 years, she married Edward
Wade of Stourton Grange. After living 14 years with her second
husband he died, and she then resided at Halton, in the county of
York, vmtil her death.
From the foregoing the reader will have seen that the Wades
were people of note and mark in the olden time. The frequent
occurence of the name in Herald's Visitations is the surest evi-
dence of good birth, for the old time herald was nothing if not a
sycophant and disdained to bestow the title of esquire on any but
a landed proprietor.
The following series of pedigrees, wills and extracts from parish
registers relate to families of the name of which records are more
connected and perfect. It also includes instances of the famous
Wades of the days gone by. Naturally the first concern will be
with the Yorkshire family of Waad or Wade, famous as producing
Armigel Waad, or. Wade — "the English Columbus" — as his
monument in the church at Hampstead, Middlesex, used to boast
before it fell a sacrifice to the zeal of the church-restorer ; his son,
Sir William Waad, or Wade, the subservient Lieutenant of the
Tower of London, who was such a busybody in ferreting out the
details of the Gunpowder Plot, and so great a factor in the colon-
ization of Virginia and the Bermuda Islands, and, lastly, if we may
believe the account of the not-always-reliable Sir Bernard Burke,
famed also as the ancestral stock of Field Marshal General George
Wade, the commander-in-chief of the British army in early Georg-
ian days.* But this last distinction requires more evidence to sup.
port it, as will be seen from the following data.
By reference to the map of the county of York, in the north of
England, the reader will find, nestling near the rugged fells of the
adjoining county of Lancaster and in the midst of the bleak beauty
yo The Wade Genealogy.
of the Yorkshire wolds and Cumberland dales, a hamlet, near
Coniston, called Kilnsey. Here, not many miles away from
Whalley, where Duke Wada was defeated, and in the heart of that
wild Northumbria, where Teutonic folk-stories of Wada were num-
erous and curious, was early settled a notable family of the Wades.
That these Wades were of long standing in this district appears
from the Poll Tax roll of 2 Rich. II (1379). At Silsden, York-
shire, Wilhelmus Wade and his wife were taxed four pence, and
Matilda Wade a like amount. The name of De Wode or del
Wode is of frequent occurrence at Bolton Abbey, Coniston, Mal-
ham and adjoining places. William Wade of Addingham, York-
shire, was a horse soldier of the battle of Flodden Field, Septem-
ber 9, 15 13, serving under Henry Clifford, Earl of Cumberland,
" The Shepherd Lord of Barden Tower," when, as the old ballad
runs :
" All that Craven coast did till
They with the lusty Clifford came."
Speight's excellent book on the Yorkshire moors around Kiln-
sey gives some interesting particulars of these Wades of Kilnsey,
and conveys a good idea of the romantic beauty of the district where-
in these sturdy woldsmen lived.
As a graceful writer says of it : — " Here is a shire which from
the first twilight of our stormy history has caught all men's imag-
ination by the strength and vigor of its life ; a stage on which the
grandest dramas have been played out with pomp and tragedy ;
a soil which has been drenched through and through by the very
noblest blood in England ; a sturdy bulwark thrust well-nigh
across the whole width of the country, in the track of the Scotch
invasion ; a land of tradition, of romance, and one withal of beauty
so great and varied, so rare a medley of exquisite river-valleys
falUng out of wild moorland hills, of high, grassy dales along the
wind-swept mountains, and of stern seacoast as can be matched
only in one other shire. If life in Yorkshire had been tame
throughout all history, if its dalesmen had been peaceful shep-
herds and its Barons ready to give unquestioning loyalty to every
King who sat at Westminster, if its townsmen had been placid
traders and its great forests had never bred an outlaw — yet men
would have wandered over its mountains and gazed down its val-
leys with delight for their very beauty. * * * Every mile of
the vast area of Yorkshire is an epitome of English history, but
Famous English Wades. 71
more than th.it, a monument of fierce passions and bloody trage-
dies, of cruel raids and gallant expeditions, which cries out loudly
for our sympathy and interest, even in these days of peace. For
many a century Yorkshire life was a splendid pageant, and though
the banners and the pennants have long since swept away else-
where, though the dales are silent which used to echo with the
clank of spears or harness, and the daws nest freely in the roofless
castles of Scrope and Mobray, or defile the sacred precincts of
Fountains and of Rievaulx — still those who listen rightly may
catch some echo of the distant music; clear and ringing through
all the generations which have come and gone. A very little
fancy will people those valleys once more with the musters of sturdy
yeomen who rode to Bannockburn or Flodden, will raise again the
banners of the Five Wounds of Christ, or call up the picture of
the first messengers spurring into York from the field of Marston
Moor, where, through the long summer evening, the citizens knelt
praying in their churches that they might be spared that terror
which was surely falling on them."
It is the land around the proud Fountains, fair Kirklees and
stately Bolton Abbeys, on the borders of the Lake country sacred
to Wordsworth, a localty pregnant with folklore of heroic deeds.
Men from these dales fought at Otterbourne as well as Flodden, and
oft-times hunted the stark moss-troopers back to their holds.
Speight says that Kilnsey Hall, the whilom seat of the Wades, is
fast falling into decay, but that it still shews the family arms and
the inscription " C. W. 1648,'" standing for Christopher Wade,
whose son Cuthbert was a captain of Royalist Dragoons in 1675.
In 32 Hen VIII. (1541) on the dissolution of the monasteries, the
king granted Kilnsey to Sir Richard Gresham, Kt., (j) of whom
Sir John Yorke, Sheriff of London and Under Treasurer of the
Mint, purchased it in 6 Edw VI. (1552). Lady Anne Clififord^
daughter of the last Earl of Cumberland, records in her MS diary
a visit to " Mr. Cuthbert Wade's house at Kilnsey " when she
was 74 years of age.
That this particular family of Wades was of the order of gentle-
(s) Wade may have owed his introduction at court to Sir Richard
Gresham. Sir William Wade calls Sir John Yorke "cosen," and as
will be seen later the Wades of Kilnsea were said to be related to the
Earl of Cumberland. Neither of these relationships has been ascer-
tained by the present compiler.
72 The Wade Genealogy.
people appears from the Herald's Visitation of the County of
York, made by Sir William Dugdale, Garter-King-at-Arms, in
1665, for under date of Skipton, August 17, 1665, when recording
the pedigrees of the gentry resident in the Wapentake of Staine-
cliffe, the King-at-Arms recorded a descent of Wade of Kilnsey,
which, preserved in the Harleian MSS. 4630, folio 663, in the
British Museum, has been reproduced in the Transactions of the
Surtees Society. Vol. XXXVI, p. 32, and also, more recently,
and with some additions, in the pages of the Genealogist, Vol. XI
NS. p. 160-1. (1894). The Herald then ascribed to the family as
arms; azure, a saltire between 4 escallops, or, and for crest, a
rhinoceros argent, but was careful to note on his visitation rolls
that "no proof e was made of these amies."
There is a curious family tradition as to this rhinoceros crest, it
being said that a rhinoceros horn was presented to Armigel or Sir
William Wade by the King of Spain on attendance at the court of
that monarch as ambassador of the King of England. This
most curious horn, with the name and arms of Waad inscribed on
it, is to-day in the possession of a descendant of Armigel Wade,
Mr. William de Vins Wade, a solicitor of the Supreme Court of
Judicature in England, who resides at Great Dunmow, in the
county of Essex, and who, as a worthy son of the old stock, has re-
cently, and at considerable expense, restored the tomb of Sir Wil-
liam Wade in the church of Manuden, in the county of Essex.
(There was a strange medicEval belief in the virtues of rhinoceros
horn as a poison-detector. It was alleged that if poison were put
into a vessel made of rhinoceros' horn, the liquid contained therein
would effervesce. Other strange Eastern beliefs as to the rhino-
ceros appear in Sinbad's Second Voyage, in " The Arabian
Nights." As to the meaning of the unusual Christian name of
Armigil, still in use among the Wades, An English Garner, (Vol.
II., p, 61), says; "The name Armigill is probably the same as
Armgold, and cognate with the German Eringild." What the ori-
gin of the name is is uncertain. Miss Yonge, in her History of
Christian Names, gives Ermengild as used in Russia, and interprets
it as equivalent to " Public pledge."
A family tradition has it that Armigaal is the Portuguese for a
rhinoceros, but this, of course, is devoid of foundation, as both
Famous English Wades. 73
•
the Spanish and Portuguese languages call a rhinoceros — rhinocer-
ente. Almarjal a garden of glasswort, is the only similar regular
Spanish word, but Artnajal a fen, moor or bog, is given as a pro-
vincial Spanish word and is possibly the true origin of the name.
It was perhaps suggested by the natural features of the Yorkshire
moors, which encircled Wade's birthplace, to some Spanish captive
or traveler, and by him given to Wade's father.
As to the use of a similar name as a surname, see Le Neve's
Knights (Harl. Socy. p. 76), where there is a pedigree of four gen-
erations of the descendants of Sir Clement Armiger, (knighted 18
June, 1660) of Bloomsbury, Middlesex and North Creake, Norfolk.
There was also an ancient family of the name of Armiger in Suf-
folk and Norfolk. Robert Armiger was at Ottley, in Suffolk, in
1386. There are lands in that parish called Armigers. The
family were lords of the manor of Monewden, Suffolk, at an early
date. (See Notes and Queries, 5th Series 2, 458 ; 6th Series, VII.,
428, VIII., 75, 135).
There is a town called Armiger in Anne Arundel county, Mary-
land, with a population of 12 persons. It is situate near Annapo-
lis. Several persons of this peculiar surname reside in Baltimore,
Maryland.
Two other derivations for this unusual Christian name are af-
forded by Lower, Patronymica Britannica, Armiger or Arminger
is, of course, the Latin armiger (arm-bearer), an esquire, the next
in degree to a knight. Lower also quotes the Register of Battel
Abbey to shew that the. upper servants of an abbey were termed
armigeri. Now Kilnsea was in possession of the monks until
Henry VIII. gave it to Sir Thomas Gresham, and Armigil Waad
was, as we know, related to Comyn, the Prior of Nostel. Even if
Armigil Waad himself did not come from Kilnsea, the Wade fam-
ily flourished around Bolton and Fountains Abbeys, where once the
monks were all powerful until a divorce-seeking king turned re-
former and iconoclast.)
Later records and the compiler's own researches have so added
to this pedigree of Wade as to much improve the Herald's Visita-
tion, and it may well be stated in the usual American manner as
follows :
74
The Wade Genealogy.
I.
WADE OF KILNSEA AND LONDON.
FIRST GENERATION.
- Wade (the ancestor), probably of Kilnsea in Craven, irt
the County of York, hving about 1500.
Married (daughter of Comyn and sister of
Akired Comyn (/), Prior of St. Oswald, Nostel, Yorke.)
Wade of Kilnsea in Craven, Yorkshire. (Herald's Visitation of York-
shire, 1665). Anus. Azure, a saltire between 4 escallops or.
Crest. A rhinosceros, argent.
SECOND GENERATION.
Issue :-
Wade.
3. Armigel Wade.
4. Elizabeth Wade, married Robert Allott of Bentley
Grange, Yorkshire (/).
(/) (This connection of Wade and Comyn, a curious point in this
descent, is shown in the achievement of Sir William Wade at the
Tower of London, who depicts on his marshalled coat of arms.
I. Wade. 2. Gules, a chevron, between three boars' heads, couped
argent. (Also a Wade coat of arms.) 3. Gules, 3 garbs, or, (Comyn
bears: — Gules, 3 garbs, ardent). 4. Or, 2 bars, azure, in chief 3 water
bougets, gules. (See Baylej^'s Tower of London, i, 130.) As to Nostel
Priory, see Burke's Vicissitudes of Families, Vol. I, pp. 313-321. The
will of Elizabeth (Wade) Allott, sister of Armigel Wade and niece of
William (?-Alured) Com^m, Prior of Nostel, Yorkshire, is dated Febru-
ary I, 1566. In it she desired to be buried in the church or church-
yard of Emley in the County of York. The inventory of her estate
is dated Sept. 17, 1567, and the will of her husband, Robert Allott,
is dated 1541.)
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75
SECOND GENERATION.
Wade (son of ) b.
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue : —
5. Arthur Wade.
Armigel Wade (son of ), b. about 15 11; d. 1568.
Married: — I, Anna Merbury, or Marbury, (w) daughter of
Thomas Marbury, citizen and haberdasher, of London,
(widow of Bradley, by whom she had at least
the two daughters, Anne and Judithe, mentioned in
Armigel Wade's will).
Married: — II, Alice Patten (daughter of Richard Patten,
of London, widow of Thomas Searle of Essex, who died
after 1536. She died 1568).
Issue : —
(I.) 6. -
(11.)
7-
8.
9.
10.
II.
12.
13-
14.
15-
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23-
24-
25-
Wade.
Wade.
Wade.
Law, b. 1547, d.
Armigel Wade
William Wade, b. about 1546.
Thomas Waad, a Reader in the
Dec, 1594.
Joyce Wade (dau.)
Ann Wade (dau.)
Wade (dau.)
Wade (son), died before 156S (v).
Wade (son), died before 1568.
Wade (Son), died before 1568.
Wade, died before 1568.
Wade, died before 1568.
Wade, died before 156S.
Wade, died before 1568.
Wade, died before 1568.
Wade, died before 1568.
Wade, died before 1568.
Wade, died before 1568.
Wade, died before 156S.
deserves, as will be seen, more than passing
Sons.
notice.
{ti) Arms of Marbury : Sable, a cross engrailed, between 4 pheons,
argent. Arms of Merbury : Or, on a fesse, engrailed, azure, 3 garbs
of the field. The State papers contain a petition of Thomas Marbury
and Elizabeth, his wife, dated Feb. i, 1573, asking for a regrant
of lands in County Bedford, and refer to a pension of ;^20 granted to
Elizabeth Marbury being in arrear. The biography of a spy of this
name appears in the Dictiojiary of Natiofial Biography, and both
Armigel and his son, Sir William, had much to do with the employ-
ment of spies. See also (Harl. Socy., Vol. i, p. 51, Visit, of London
in 1568.)
76 The Wade Genealogy.
But scanty indeed is tlie information we possess as to this early
wertliy. Tlie principal account of him is to be found in Park's
Topography and Natural History of Hampsiead in the County of
Middlesex, ^«^/a«</ (1818), which tells that "he was descended
from the Wades of Yorkshire, in which county he was born ; and,
according to Anthony Wood iw), spent some years in logic and
philosophy in Magdalen College, Oxford ; and, it seems, took a
degree in Arts there \ finished his education at one of the Inns of
Court (a), and then commenced his travels. This is evidently
the routine of a person in the superior walks of life, although we
are ignorant of his parentage. Upon his return he was attached
to the Court by being appointed Clerk of the Council to Henry
VIII., which office was continued to him in the following reign.
Wood asserts that he had made many observations in his travels,
especially in America (being the first Englishman that discovered
it), which are remitted into the volumes of travels collected and
published by another hand. (^Athenae Oxoniensis I., 154). This
statement as to the discovery of America is certainly authorized
by Mr. Waad's monumental inscription, from whence the whole of
Wood's account is taken, but, further authority, I can find none.
He is indeed said to have been styled ' The English Columbus'
(Morant's History of Essex, vol. II., p. 631), and Dr. Fuller
(^Worthies of Yorkshire, p. 203) affirms "that his several voyages
are largely described in Mr. Hackluit, his travels.
'T believe the reader may search in vain, there or elsewhere, for
' Waad's Voyages,' although he will find his name mentioned as
an adventurer to Newfoundland in the account of Hore's voyage
to that island in 1536 " (Park's Hampstead, p. 138).
{v) It is probable that one of Armigel Wade's sons was named Chris
topher, and was Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1561; B. A. 10
July, 1562; M. A, 1567, and died young. (See Foster's A linntii Oxon-
iensis.) Armigel himself was a graduate of this college.
(w). (Foster, in his Alumi Oxoniensis, supplies these data : "Armigel
Wade, B. A., from Magdalen College, January 23, 2531-2, a great trav-
eler and the first English discoverer of America — Clerk of the Council
to Henry VIII. and Edward VI. — M.P. for Chipping Wycomb, (1547-52)
— sometimes called a knight. Died at Belsize, Hampstead, 20 June,
1568. (See Wood's Athence Oxoniensis, I., 360, Foster's Parliamentary
Dictionary).
{x). Possibly the Middle Temple, as his name does not occur in the
registers of the other three principal inns of court.
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77
Another evidence of the standing of Armigel Wade exists in the
grant to liim of a coat of arms by Gilbert Dethick, Garter King at
Arms. (A. No. 196). The arms, as will be seen from the accom-
panying illustration, differ curiously from the usual Wade Arms,
and are remarkable as possessing 2 crests.
It is perhaps permissible in a genealogical work to speculate on
the probable date of Armigel Waad's birth, especially as the church
registers of Coniston do not commence before 1560. He graduated
B.A. at Oxford on 23 January, 153 1-2. It was in the days of
early graduations, but to be conservative, if he were 20 years old
at graduation, he was born about 151 1, and if so, was 58 years old
at his death in 1568. Itis, of course, possible that he was older at
Arms and Crests granted by Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter King at Arms,
to Armigel Waad, Esquire, Secretary of the Privy Council.
See additional MSS. 12454, and Harleian MSS.
5847, in the British Museum.
graduation. An extreme case might suppose him living to be 83
years old, as such born in 1485 (i Hen. VII.) and graduating in
1531 at the age of 46, did not his life disprove this. It was a
young and adventurous man who in 1536 sailed in the Minion on
Hore's voyage of exploration. The risks were those a man of 25
years of age would take. His travels and his lifework were done
before he was 50 years old, and we may fairly place him as born
about 15 1 1, (2 Hen. VIII.). Thus he saw nearly all of Bluff
78 The Wade Genealogy.
King Hal's reign, the, brief rule of Edward VI., Bloody Mary's
persecution of the Protestants, and stern Elizabeth's similar
treatment of the Papists. If he were born about 15 11, he was 29
years old when he was appointed Clerk of the Council at Calais, 35
years old at the birth of his son William, 36 when appointed third
clerk of the privy council, and 37 when elected Member of Par-
liament. The balance of probability is thus in favor of his birth
about 1 5 1 1 .
So valuable and interesting is this account of the voyage of the
English Columbus that the compiler subjoins the extract from
Hakluyt verbatim. It runs as follows : " The Master Hore of
London, a man of goodly stature and great courage, and given to
the study of cosmographie, in the twenty-eighth year of King
Henry the Eighth, and in the year of our Lord 1536, encouraged
divers gentlemen and others, being assisted by the king's favour
and good countenance, to accompany him in a voyage of discov-
erie upon the northwest parts of America : Wherein his persua-
sion took such effect that within short space many gentlemen of
the Inns of Court and of the Chancerie, and divers others of
good worship, desirous to see the good things of the world, very
wdllingly entered into the action with him, some of whose names
were as follows : Mr. Weekes, a gentleman of the west country-, of
five hundred marks by the year living ; Mr. Tucke, a gentleman
of Kent ; Mr. Tuckfield ; Mr. Thomas Butts, ( r) the son of Sir
William Butts, knight, of Norfolk, (which was lately living, and
from whose mouth I wrote most of this relation) ; Mr. Hardie ;
Mr. Biron ; Mr. Carter ; Mr. Wright ; Mr. Rastall (Sergeant
Rastall's brother) ; Mr. Ridley and divers others, which all were
in the Admyrall, called the Triniiie, a ship of seven score tunnes,
wherein Mr. Hore himself was imbarked. In the other ship,
wdiose name was the Minion^ went a ver}^ learned and virtuous gentle-
man, one Mr. Armigil Wade, afterward clerk of the Counsailles to
King Henry the 8th, and King Edward the 6th, father to the wor-
shipful Mr. William Wade, now clerke of the Privie Counsell ; Mr.
Oliver Dawbeney, Merchant of London ; Mr. Joy, afterward
(_>') Butts must have been very young at the time of the voyage,
probably a student of law or articled to an attorney. As to his father,
Sir William Butts, see Dictionary of National Biog}-aphy.
Famous English Wades. 79
gentleman of the King's Chappell, with divers others of good ac-
count.
"The whole number that went in the two tall ships aforesaid, to
wit, the Tn'miy and the Miniofi, were about six score persons,
whereof thirty were gentlemen, which all were mustered in warlike
manner at Gravesend, and after the receiving of the sacrament
they embarked themselves in the end of April, 1536.
" From the time of their setting out from Gravesend, they were
very long at sea, to wit, about two months, and never touched any
land until they came to part of the West Indies about Cape Bre-
ton, shaping their course thence northeastwards, until they came
to the island of Penguin, (2) which is very full of rocks and stones,
wdiereon they went and found it full of great fowls, white and
grey, as big as geese, and they saw infinite numbers of their
eggs. They drove a great number of the fowls into their boats
upon their sails and took many of their eggs : the fowls that
they flayed, and their skins were very like honey combs full of
holes, being flayed off. They dressed them and found them to be
very good and nourishing meat. They also saw store of hares,
both black and white, of whom they killed some and took them
for no bad food.
" Mr. Oliver Dawbeney, which, (as it is before mentioned), was
in this voyage, and in the Minion, told me, Richard Hakluyt, of
the Middle Temple, these things following, to wit : — That after
their arrival in Newfoundland, and having been there certain days
at anchor, and not having yet seen any of the natural people of
the countr}^ the same Dawbeney walking one day on the hatches
spied a boat with savages of those parts rowing down the bay
toward them to gaze upon the ship and our people ; and taking
view of their coming aloft, he called to such as were under the
hatches and willed them to come up if they would see the natural
people of the country that they had so long and so much desired
to see, whereupon they came up and took view of the savages
rowing toward them and their ship, and upon the view they
manned out a ship boat to meet them and to take them. But
they, spying our ship boat making towards them, returned with
{s) Penguins were of course great auks, the a/ca impennis of the or-
nithologist, {^ee Aleinorial History of BosioH, vol. I, pp. 12-13).
8o The Wade Genealogy.
main force and fled into an island that lay up in the bay or river
there ; and our men pursued them into the island, and the sav-
ages fled and escaped, but our men found a fire and the side of a
bear on a wooden spit left at the same by the savages that were
fled.
" There in the same place they found a boot of leather gar-
nished on the outward side of the calf with certain brave trails,
as it were, of raw silk, and also found a certain great warm mit-
ten, and these carried with them, they returned to the ship, nor
seeing anything else besides the soil, and the things growing in
the same, which chiefly were store of fir and pine trees.
" And further the said Mr. Dawbeney told him, that lying there
they grew into great want of victuals, and that they found small
relief, more than they had from the nest of an osprey, that
brought them hourly to her young great plenty of divers sorts of
fishes. But such was the famine that increased among them
from day to day that they were forced to relieve themselves of
raw herbs and roots that they sought on the main ; but the famine
increasing, and the relief of herbs being to little purpose to satisfy
their insatiable hunger, in the fields and deserts here and there,
the fellow killed his mate while he stooped to take up a root for
his relief, and cutting out pieces of his body whom he had mur-
dered, broiled the same on the coals and greedily devoured
them.
'' By this means the company decreased and the officers knew
not what had become of them ; and it fortuned that one of the
company, driven with hunger to seek abroad for relief, found out
in the fields the savor of broiled flesh, and fell out with one for
that he would suffer him and his fellows to starve, enjoying plenty
as he thought ; and this matter growing to cruel speeches, he that
had the broiled meat burst out with these words : ' If thou
wouldst need know, the broiled meat that I had was a piece of
such a man's buttock.' The report of this brought to the ship, the
captain found what became of those that were missing, and was
persuaded that some of them were neither devoured with wild
beasts, nor yet destroyed with savages ; and hereupon he stood
up and made a notable oration, containing how much these deal-
ings offended the Almighty, and vouched the scriptures from first
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to last, what God had in cases of distress done for them that called
upon Him, and told them that the power of the Almighty was then
no less than in all former time it had been, and added, that if it
had not pleased God to have helped them in that distress, that it
had been better to have perished in body and to have lived ever-
lastingly, than to have relieved for a poor time their mortal bodies
and to be condemned everlastingly, both body and soul, to the
unquenchable fire of Hell. And thus, having ended to that ef-
fect, he began to exhort to repentance, and besought all the com-
pany to pray, that it might please God to look upon their present
miserable state and for his own mercy to relieve the same. The
famine increasing, and the inconvenience of the men being miss-
ing being found, they agreed among themselves rather than that
all should perish, to cast lots who should be killed : and such was
the mercy of God that the same night there arrived a French ship
in that port, well furnished with victual, and such was the policy
of the English, that they became masters of the same, and chang-
ing ships and victualling them, they set sail to come to England,
" In their journey they were so far northwards that they saw
mighty islands of ice in the summer season, on which were hawks
and other fowls to rest themselves, being weary of flying over far
from the main : They also saw certain great white fowls with red
bills and red legs, somewhat bigger than herons, that they supposed
to be storks. They arrived at St. Ives in Cornwall about the end
of October. From there they departed unto a certain castle be-
longing to Sir John Luttrell, where Mr. Thomas Butts and Mr.
Rastall and other gentlemen of the voyage were very friendly enter-
tained : after that they came to the Earl of Bath, and thence to
Bristol, so to London. Mr. Butts was so changed in the voyage
with hunger and misery, that Sir William, his father, and my
Lady, his mother, knew him not to be their son, until they found a
secret mark which was a wart upon one of his knees, as he told
me, Richard Hakluyt, of Oxford, himself, to whom I rode two
hundred miles only to have the whole truth of this voyage from his
own mouth, as being the only man now alive that was in that dis-
covery.
" Certain months after those Frenchmen came into England
and made complaint to King Henry the Eighth ; the King causing
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the matter to be examined and finding the great distress of his
subjects, and the causes of dealing so with the French, was so
moved with pity that he punished not his own subjects, but of liis
own purse made full and Royal recompense unto the French.
" In this distress of famine, the English did somewhat relieve
their vital spirits by drinking at the springs the fresh water out of
certain wooden cups, out of which they drunk their aqua composita
before." {Hackluyt's Voyages, Vol. III. pp. 129-131).
Hakluyt obtained this account of Hore's voyage on the authority
of his cousin and homonym, Richard Hakluyt of the Inner Tem-
ple. The start of the expedition is mentioned by Robert Pierce
Condon in his History 0/ Gravesend, 8vo. London (1843), p. 213.
See di\so Jean el Sebastian Cabot par Harrisse p. 297.
Hakluyt's statement that Master Hore and his companions
" were assisted by the King's (Hen. VIII.) favor and good coun-
tenance " is a sufficient answer to the silly tirade against Henry
VIII. made by Foster {N'orthern Voyages, p, 268), and to the dia-
tribes of Dr. Robertson {America, book IX.) and Profs. Leslie
and Jameson, and Hugh Murray {Edinboro Cabinet Library, Vol. I.,
p, 98). Dr. Asher, in his introduction to Henry Hudson, the Navi-
gator (p. xcv.) is inclined to ridicule Hore as a lawyer who had
dabbled in cosmography, and is severe in his strictures on the dar-
ing act of piracy committed, (see also Kohl's Discovery of Maine,
pp. 337-340). Be it as it may, exploration seems to have slum-
bered from Hore's voyage in 1536 until the year 1574.
To Armigel Waad, as a cultured scholar of the University of
Cambridge, would have been known that passage in the chorus of
The Medea of Seneca : —
'Venient annis
Saecula seris, Quibus Oceanus
Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens
Pateat tellus, Tethysque novos
Detegat orbes, nee sit terris
Ultima Thule.'
(lines 376-381.)
which has been called a prophesy of America, and was thus ren-
dered :
. . . . ' time shall in fine out breake
When Ocean wane shall open euery Realme,
The wondering World at will shall open lye,
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And TYPHIS will some new founde Land suruay.
Some trauelers shall the Countreys farre escrye,
Beyond small Thule, knowen furthest at this day.'
It may have been such words as these which set Armigel Waad's
soul aflame, fiUing hhii with desire to " escrye the Countreys
farre," but certain it is that this adventurous voyage was the first
important atternpt by Enghshmen to reap the fruits of the knowl-
edge gained by Columbus and Cabot.
Biddle, in his Memoir of Cabot, page 278, refers to this voyage
made by Armigel Wade as " evidently contemplating an adven-
turous range of research," though he does not mention the names
of those taking part in it ; and Alexander Brown, also, in his Gen-
esis of the United States (vol. I., p. 2), while he considers Sir
Thomas More's Utopia as the most remarkable publication having
a bearing on America of Henry VIII. 's reign, in the next sentence
styles the expedition of Master Robert Hore, in company with
Armigel Wade and others, " the most notable voyage of discovery
in the same period." It would be idle at the present day to at-
tempt to defend the literal accuracy of the inscription on Armigel
Wade's tomb. He certainly was not the first English explorer of
America, as the sixteen English sailors in Sebastian Cabot's ves-
sel were entitled to this appellation, if not the Irishman and
Englishman who perished at Navidad, in the crew of Columbus.
Erroneous is it to call Armigel Wade, the English Columbus,
when we are confronted with the Privy Purse Expense account of
Henry VII., which under date of Jan. 7, 1502, records the pay-
ment " To men of Bristol, (Thome and Elliot), that found the Isle,
;i^5." It seems clear, also, that a Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral
(Albertus de Prato) was a member of an earlier expedition in
1527, and actually landed on the American continent (Hakluyt,
III., 129).
While the inscription may be taken as bombastic eulogy from
the pen of Sir William Wade, even then there is a curious fact to
be noted as to the early Wades and their part in exploring
America.
Armigel Wade had, as we find from his monument, seventeen
sons and three daughters. What is more probable than that some
of these sons took part with the other adventurous spirits of these
84 The Wade Genealogy.
days in the exploration of the mysterious West ? It was an age
of great deeds and greater daring. Long had the intrepid Mer-
chant Adventurers of the port of Bristol sought for the fabled
terrestrial paradise of the isle of Bimini. The earth was full of
rumors of wondrous lands and the fame of Columbus and the
Cabots was great indeed. Every simple squire dreamed of
empires in the hidden west and later, scores followed Gosnold,
Smith, Drake, Hawkins, Frobisher and the gallant Raleigh in
quest of Spanish treasure-ships to seize, or auriferous lands to
conquer.
Let us look at the facts at Yorktown in Virginia. Here,
though the land has been harried by Hessian and English invad-
ers and has suffered severely in the Civil War, the records are
fortunately in excellent condition. In the county records a Henry
Wade appears as early as 1646. There is a will of Armiger
Wade who lived in York county in 1644, and was burgess in
1657, and the Clerk of the County and Circuit Courts reports the
frequent occurrence of the names of Armiger Wade, Edward
VVade, Thomas Wade, William Wade, John Wade, Richard Wade,
James Wade, Joseph Wade and Mildred Wade.
These, as surely as human speculation can be correct,
were descendants of that worthy Armigel Wade of England, who
was no inconsiderable figure in the history of his own land.
(See post, Chapter V.)
Waad is said to have written an account of this voyage which
was afterwards printed. No such work has been traced. After
his return the explorer seems to have entered the service of
Henry VIII. probably as a messenger. In 1540, on the recom-
mendation of Lord Maltravers, the lord deputy, Waad was pro-
moted clerk of the council at Calais. He was promoted third clerk
of the Privy Council at London at Midsummer, 1547, serving at first
without a regular salary, though he was paid for special services,
like arresting a Frenchman, (probably Jean Ribauld), when he tried
to escape to France (.-Jc/j P. C, ed. Dasent, 1547-50, pp. 113,
184). At the meeting of the Privy Council on Sunday, Jan. 15,
1547, Armigill Wade was directed to deliver certain cancelled
Letters Patent into the Treasury. On September 22, 1547, he
was elected Member of Parliament for Chipping Wycombe, in the
Famous English Wades. 85
county of Buckingham. On 17 April, 1548, he began to draw a
regular salary of fifty marks as third clerk of the council.
We find that Armigel Wade is referred to by William Patten (/)
in his Diary of the Expedition into Scotland (1548), in the following
encomiastic phrases : — " Though I plainly told ye not, that my
friend's name was Armigil Wade ; yet we that know the man, his
good literature, his wit and dexterity in all his doings and mark
the well couching of his clue, might have a great guess of whose
spinning the thread were." (See Notes and Queries, April, 189 1.)
At the meeting of the Privy Council on April 16, 1548, the
salary of William Hunnyng, one of the clerks of the council, was
raised from ;^2o to ;^5o, that of Sir Thomas Chaloner, another
clerk, from ;ir 10 to ;^4o, and Armigill Wade, "who had served
syns mydsomer last (for) no manner of fee or interteynement was
ordered to receive 50 marks fee by the yere." At the council of
Feb. 3, 1549, the exchequer had a warrant for 13s. 4d ($3) to Armi-
(/) William Patten (fl. 1 548-1 580), historian and teller of the Excheq-
uer, was eldest son and third child of Richard Patten (d. 1536), a cloth-
worker of London. The father was the son of Richard Patten, of
Boslow, Derbyshire, and a nephew of William Patten, alias Waynliete,
Bishop of Winchester. William's mother, Grace, died before her hus-
band {Greg son Portf. Fragments, pp. 190-4, Che t ham Socy. Pnl>.,
Ixxxviii, 229). Patten apparently accompanied the expedition into
Scotland in 1548, and the Earl of Warwick, lieutenant of the host,
made him "one of the judges of the Marshalsey." William Cecil,
(afterwards Lord Burghley), went with him, and both, according to
Patten, took notes day by day.
Patten prepared an account of the expedition for publication and
obtained some aid from Cecil's diary. The work appeared as " The
E.xpedecion into Scotland of the most ivoortherly fortunate Prince
Rd7vard, Duke of Somerset, nncle unto our most noble Sovereign
Lord ye twinges majestie, Edivard the VI., governor of hys hyghness
persone, and protectour of hys graces realmes, doniinions and sub-
jects: made in the first year of his majesties most prosperous reign,
and set out by way of diarie by W. Patten, Londoner. Iniprijtted in
London the last day of June, in the second year of the reign of Ed-
ward VI." It was reprinted in Dalzell's Fragments of Scottish His-
tory, Edinburg (179S), and in Arber's Em^lish Garner, III, 5i-i=;5,
(1880).
In 1550 Patten had a lease of the manor of Stoke Newington,
repaired the parish church 1563, became one of the tellers of the receipt
of the Queen's Exchequer at Westminster, receiver general of her
revenues in the county of York, custumer of London outward, and a
justice of the peace for Middlesex. His sister Alice, married Armigel
Waad. By his wife Annie, one of the heiresses of Richard Johnson, of
Boston, Lincolnshire, Patten had seven children. An engraving of
Patten by J. Mills is in Robinson's Stoke Newington, p. 28. {Diction-
ary of National Biography, Vol. 44, p. 50).
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gill Wade, clerk of the Counceill for so much delyvered by him to
oone who the Kinges Majeste useth in speciall service {i. e. a spy.)
On Feb. 27, 1540, ;^i5o was ordered to be paid to Armigill Wade
to bee by him delyvered as the Kinges Majestes reward to Senour
Gaspara Figueredo, Ambassador of the Kinge of Portugal, at the
departure of him toward the king his master. On March 13,
1549, the sum of £12 1^ was ordered paid to Armigill Wade, to
be by him delyvered to two gentlemen, Almaynes, (Germans),
sent to the kinges majeste from the Duke of Brunswick, by way of
reward. On May 28, 1549, there was ordered to be paid to Armi-
gill Wade £"], ($35) for his charges for two severall viages, one made
to Cantorbwry, thother to Lewys in Sussex about his Majeste's
speciall affayres. Another payment of 20s, ($5) was made to
Armigill Wade on Sept. 7, 1549 for jorneys by him made. On
Nov. 5, 1549, a payment of £i\., ($20) was made to Armigill Wade
and to the clerkes of the Counsell for paper, pen and ynk for this
^st quarter 50s, ($12.50). On March 27, 1550, the sum of
^1050 was ordered to be paid to Sir Thomas Chaloner, knight,
and Armigill Wade, esquier, to be by them employed for the pay-
mentes and rewardes of straungers. (i. e. the foreign spies.) On
July 17, 1550, Armigill Wade was sent to the French Ambassador
(in London), with an answer touching the four points of his re-
quest. On Nov. 16, 1550, the sum of ;^i5o was paid to Aermigill
Wade for special service. On Nov. 19, 1550, an order was made by
the Lords of the Privy Council '-that Armigill Wade, Winter,
of the Admyralte and such oone merchaunt as they will call unto
them shall understande the case of Domingo and make report.
On Feb. 24, 1551— 2, the sum of ;^i5o was ordered paid to Armi-
gill Wade for the King's Majestes use. On March 15, 155 1-2, a
warrant was ordered issued to Mr. Waade, one of the clerkes, to
deliver to Flod of the garde £s-S-9- ^"^^ the borde of John Rybald,
(Jean Ribault, a Frenchman), who was prisoner in his howse. On
June 21. 1 5 5 1 , a warrant was ordered issued to Mr. Armagill
Wade to pay £^ to Barthilimewe Willock, for bringing letters from
the Lord Marques Dorset and returning agayn. On July 29, 155 i,
a letter was written to Armigill Wade to repare to the Emperor's
Ambassador with answere to his articles and to prepare himself to
attende here. On Dec. 20, 155 1, Sir John Mason and Mr. Armi-
Famous English Wades. 87
gill Wade were commanded to search Tunstall, the Bishop of
Durham's lodging, (on his committal to the Tower), and to take an
inventory of all his goodes there.
In April, 1551, Waad brought certain accusations against the
Countess of Sussex, and on April 14, 1552, the Privy Council,
sent a letter to Hobby and the Lieutenant of ' the Tower that they,
with Armigill Waade, should examine the Countess of Sussex upon
articles delivered unto them by the said Armigill Waad. On
April 24 , 1552, a warrant was ordered issued to Mr. Waad to pay
Edward Barwick for a journey to Scotland and back, ^17.15.8.
On May 9, 1552, another warrant was issued by the Privy Council
to Armigill Waad to pay Benjamin Jonstone £70^. iis. ood. On
May 9, 1552, Mr. Judde, Mayor of the Staple, was directed to pay
Mr. Waade £800 " for the King's Majesty's affairs." On May
26, 1552, a letter was written by the Privy Council to the
Chancellor of the Augmentations " to make out a booke
unto Armigill Waade and Barnard Hampton, Cierkes of
the King's Majesty's Privy Council, of his highness gifte
of Trinitie Church in York, with all manner the tymber, bells,
glasse, stone and other things to the same church belonging."
Under date of May 30, 1552, a letter was sent to the Lieutenant
of the Tower " to suffer Mr Waade, in his presence, to spake with
the Lorde Paget, who must signe a book sent by the sayd Mr.
Waade." On Oct. 24, 1552, a warrant was issued "to Mr. Waade
to pay Jeffray Harrison, Bailiff of Westminster, ;^2o for borde of
prisoners."
The rise of this Yorkshire man was fairly rapid, for
in 1552 he had risen to be chief clerk, in which capacity he was
paid ;^5o per year. The last mention of Armigil Waad as clerk
to the Privy Covmcil occurs on 13 June, 1553, and there can be
little doubt that he lost his office on Queen Mary's accession. He
also lost his seat in Parliament, and possibly a post in the Cus-
toms which he had bought, and of which, as he subsequently com-
plained to Cecil, he was deprived without compensation. In 1554
he was, however, granted by the crown the manor of Milton
Grange, Oxfordshire (Originalia Rolls, Vol. 58, p. 3). He also
acquired lands in Kentish Town and at Lydd, Kent, and sub-
seqviently leased Belsize, Hampstead, which he made his home,
88 ■ The Wade Genealogy.
from the dean and chapter of St. Paul's. In December, 1555, he
was summoned to account for ;^8oo, which, from the foregoing ex-
tracts, it seems clear he had lawfully expended on warrants.
Froude, the historian of England, (VIII. 20) under date of Decem-
ber, 1558, quotes from Armigel's Wade's pamphlet, " 0?i the Dis-
tresses of the Commonwealth. The author advised "wary hand-
ling " ; " The Catholics were in the majority in every county in
England except Middlesex and Kent ; " " The Pope was a dan-
gerous enemy " ; " theological intolerance was not found by exper-
ience to produce healthy convictions ; " " glasses with small necks,
if liquor was poured into them suddenly and violently, would not
be so filled, but would refuse to receive it." (Domestic MS., Eliza-
beth, Vol. I.).
It was a brave mind of a bold statesmen that could think thus
manfully in days when religious intolerance vied for supremacy
with the divine right of absolute monarchy, and the man who
wrote thus was no small figure in Elizabethan England's foreign
and domestic policy.
This pamphlet, calendered as " an elaborate paper," and en-
dorsed " The Distresses of the Commonwealth with ye nieanes to
remedy them, A. Wade," is preserved in the State Paper Office,
1558, No. 66. It will probably be printed in an appendix to the
present work. Waad does not appear to have been restored to
the clerkship of the council on the accession of Elizabeth ; but on
15 April, 1559, he was sent on a mission to the Duke of Holstein.
His instructions read as follows :
April 15, 1559. No. 542. — Embassy to the Duke of Holslem. "In-
structions given to Armigill Wade, Esq. , being sent to the Duke
of Hoist, by the Queen.
1. He shall repair to Holsatia, and at his arrival at Hewsen, and
afterwards at Kiel, lying upon the east seas of the said Dukedom of
Holsatia, shall cause William Earle, servant to Sir William Garrett,
Alderman of London, to procure him access to the Duke. This ob-
tained, he shall commune with him or his council in the matter of
traffic for the resort of the English merchants into his countries, con-
ferring with him upon the aptness and commodities of the ports to
which they may resort with their wares, what privileges shall be
granted them, taking care not to bind her to any conclusion.
2. He shall learn, by the secretest and indirectest way that he can
devise, what doings, liberties and privileges, they have or had, in the
countries of Sweden, Denmark and Holstein, in what state and times
they stand there this day, herein groping the Duke, (Janqiiam aliud
agejis), so as to feel whether he would be induced to break through
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them, and so handle the business, as to provoke him to use them in
such sort as has been done here, declaring to him the reasonable
offers made unto them, which they do not accept or embrace.
3. He shall further learn, by the means aforesaid, how the States
seem to take their handling, and what rumours spread there touching
their discontentation or what they may or do practise secretly or
•openly, for the stay or courage of our determinations here against
them.
4. By the means aforesaid he shall learn of what religion the Duke
is, and if he is of the religion of the Protestants, he may introduce mat-
ters of communication of religion ; declaring that, by the goodness of
God and her, this realm embraces the religion set forth in the confes-
sion of Augusta, (? Augsberg), agreeable to which the King of Den-
mark, Sweden and other princes of Germany receive ; and that the
Duke not abhoring from the same, it were meet that there were
between England and him some further intelligence for the mainten-
ance of the said Confession, and for the repressing of the attempts of
the States for the recovery of the said liberties. In all these things he
shall use himself so warily as it may seem these things pass from him-
self ; giving as it were some inkling of hope, but so as in nowise to
charge or tie the Queen.
5. In the meantime, he shall cause William Earle to bargain for a mass
of bullion in the dollar and fine silver, proceeding in the same bargain
himself under or up to 100,000/, not exceeding 8 per cent, interest for
the whole. In the handling hereof he shall not show that he is hei
minister, nor produce her warrant to treat herein unless the cause
be urgent.
These instructions are preserved in the Harleian and Sloane
MSS. in the British Museum (Harl. MSS. 36, fol. 75 ; Sloane
MSS. 31, p. 128). Waad carried also a letter from Queen
Elizabeth to the Duke of Holstein, stating that she had re-
ceived his letters addressed to her late sister, Queen Mary,
whose death had occurred before the arrival of his messenger.
These letters mention the Duke's intention to select some port
within his dominions fit for the importation and exportation of
merchandise, and the extension of commerce between their two
realms. The project has her concurrence, and she has so in-
formed her messenger. In furtherance of the same object she
sent her servant, Armigill Wade, who would further inform him
of her intentions in this matter and for whom she asks credit.
On July 8, 1559, the Duke of Holstein writes from Rensburg to
Queen Elizabeth acknowledging the receipt of her letters sent by
Armigilius Waden, and on July 31 he writes from Golldorp to Sir
William Cecil thanking Queen Elizabeth for having sent Armigil-
ius Wade to him as her envoy, by whom he despatches these
letters. An English family record tells us that Armygell Wade
90 The Wade Genealogy,
was godfather to Elizabeth Roberts, born at Neasdon, Middle-
sex, Jan, 12, 1560.
It was an age of speculation and the alchemists flourished or
fell into the dungeons of the Tower of London. The State papers,
shew Waad's dealings with one Paul Cypraeus, who, under date
of January 25, 1561, writes from Bielsano (Belsize, Mr. Waad's
house) to Sir William Cecil that he is encouraged by Mr. Waad to-
address him, and assures him of his great respect for him and his
devotion to his service. '
In addition to his public duties, Waad seems to have busied
himself in behalf of Sir William Cecil's domestic affairs. Under
date of March i, 1561, he writes from Belsize to Cecil, describ-
ing Mr. Vaughan's house. Has given orders to Cecil's gardeners-
as directed. He also recommended a person for the works at
Dover or Sandwich, who has a new method of excavating. And
again on March 7, 1561, we find him writing to Sir William Cecil
that the gardener at Greenwich will provide Cecil with all that he
can. He recommends that lavendar, spike, hissop, thyme, rose-
mary and sage be sent for. If more is necessary, then to send to
Hampton Court or Richmond. In June, 1562, Waad was sent
to Rye to muster six hundred men for service at Havre, and to
collect information about the movements of French parties and the
readiness of the Huguenots to accept English help. He writes from
Rye on June 18, 1562, to the Lord Admiral, detailing his proceed-
ings in surveying the watercourses between Newenden and Rye,
with the view of improving Rye Harbor. But the most interesting"
letter from this Elizabethan worthy comes from American custody.
In the Hardwicke MSS. in the Lenox Branch of the New York
Public Library, is a copy verbatim of Armigel Waad's letter to
Secretary Cecil from Rye on June 25, 1562. Its quaint diction is
as follows :
May it like your Honor to be advertised that the Captain
of Dieppe having received by Rockard (of whose sending to
Dieppe I wrote to your Honor the 19th of this present)
the commendations that I did send into him, hath by the
same Rockard thanked me most heartily for the same; and
for News certain, hath sent me now, that the 17th of this
present, Monsr. de Guise issued out of his camp toward
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Alexander Hamilton and signed by General Washington, addressed to
Colonel Nathaniel Wade. (From the original in the possession of Col.
Wade's grandson, Mr. Francis H. Wade, of Ipswich. Mass.
PATRICK H. WADE.
Famous English Wades. 91
Orleans with a thousand horsemen and 3 thousand footmen,
whereof the Pr. of Conde having intelligence, made out of
Orleans, met with him, and slew 8 hundred horsemen, 11 00
Footmen, slew also the Marshal St. Andree, took the Grand
Prior and Monsr. Danville; the D. of Guise receiving 3 or 4
coups of the Harquebut upon his breast, which pierced not,
by reason of the goodness of his harness; was nevertheless
shot through the thigh with a Pellet. Whereupon he retiring
to his camp did immediately send for his brother D'aumale
to Roan, who marcheth toward him.
This note Rockard received in writing from the Captain's
mouth. He saith also, that at the same conflict the Con-
stable's son was also taken, who was immediately and secretly
discharged and enlarged; whereby it is gathered, that the
Pr: of Conde should have some secret intelligence with him.
Tomorrow, if the weather be fair, the Diepois intend to
give the assay again to Aix ; for which purpose, they propose
to carry with them 7 Pieces of Battery.
They have fortified St. Nicholas Hill wonderfully for the
shortness of the time, so as it is now thought to be tenable.
The same is the hill, that standeth west from the Town to-
ward Newhaven. Pellet Hill standing on the other side they
meddle not withal, from which hill the enemy may rather
annoy the Town with beating, than battery or approach.
In Paris the Papists do now only reign having expelled out
of the Town all the Protestants and possessed themselves
of their Houses and goods.
As the present state of things be, for that my being here
is to small purpose, I intended to depart and return (God
willing) tomorrow toward the Court, if this night Peter Adrian
return not, or that I do not receive contrary word from your
Honor.
Surely, Sir, what report soever |\1 made, you shall well
perceive at my coming, that there | was no such mean-
ing in those parts, especially at /\ not /\/\
As for /\ there is none account to be made of it for the
-purpose, both because it Sj and for that it-
so far within the— as it cannot be
And /\ and /\/\ are so stout, as they for the present
will hear of no . I think your Honor shall perceive
that the best wav tu work with them for the beginning: will be,
that, same, that I did simply touch in my letter sent by Peter
Adrian ; and it must be time and some further adversity,
than they have yet suffered, must bring them to it ; The
which must be watched for by some handsome man, of some
92 The Wade Genealogy.
acquaintance with tlie / <'_ _/\ that may from time to time,
as occasions shall happen, I and serve stir up some talk meet
for the purpose : In which behalf for the causes allegded in
my other Letters, I do judge none more fit than Peter Adrian.
I do as yet hear no news either from jNTl or from my
man, that I set unto him, which maketh me \ to fear that
all is not well.
Thus Jesus preserve your Honor.
At Rye the 25th of June, 1562.
Your Honor's to be by you commanded with all my
heart and service.
Ar Waade.
(Vol. 7, Hardwicke MSS. 436-439.)
The compiler's thanks are due to the New York Public Library
(Lenox branch), for permission to transcribe this curious docu-
ment which shows the confidental relationship between Armigel
Waad and Secretary Cecil, and the quaint cypher as regards their
spies.
Under date of September 18, 1562, Queen Elizabeth's instruc-
tions to Armigel Waad at Rye are preserved in the State Paper
Office. He was ordered to take the musters of 600 soldiers at
Rye, to be transported under command of Edward Ormesby, for
service beyond sea. Under date of September 23, 1562, he re-
ceived similar instructions as to soldiers for service at Dieppe,
this document bearing on the face of it, corrections in Secretary
Cecil's handwriting. On September 26 Queen Elizabeth wrote to
Sir Maurys Denys to make certain payments for a provost
marshal, and for officers under him ; and also to Armigill Waad,
paymaster at Rye, and 2s. per diem for his clerk. There is still
preserved in the English Record Office under date of September
28, 1562, an indenture of the armour, weapons, and munitions left
in the charge of the Mayor of Rye by Armigill Waad, for the
Queen's service. Waad, like a true Yorkshireman, seems ever to
have kept an eye open for the main chance and for his own bene-
fit. Accordingly, in December, 1562, he requested a grant of the
salt marshes between Lydd and the mouth of the Camber, with
license to enclose them.
That he was an extensive landowner appears from the feet of
Fines for the county of Middlesex. At Michaelmas 4 and 5 Eliza-
beth (i. e., A. D. 1562). he and Anne (Merbur)'), his wife, con-
Famous English Wades. 93
veyed lands in Kentyshtowne, St. Pancras and Hampstede, and in
the following year, at Easter, Armigel Wade and his wife are
parties to a fine with Sir William Cecil, Knight, Chief Secretary
of the Queen, relating to premises in Kentyshtowne, Paddington
and Hampstede, in the parish of St. Pancras. Jones' Index to
ihe Recordt, 7 Elizabeth (i. e., 1565), roll 167, also refers to him
as dealing with property at Lydd Promehill, in the county of
Kent.
On October 15, 1562, he writes from Rye to Secretary Cecil,
with a muster of soldiers arrived under charge of Mr. Walgrave,
that he ordered an account to be made of the armour remaining
in Rye ; which has given offence, as interfering with the privileges
of the Lord Warden (of the Cinque Ports). And again on Octo-
ber 16 he writes to Secretary Cecil that Mr. Walgrave has sent
one to London to make provision of armour, etc. That some of
the band of Sir Maurys Denys have arrived, as to Mr. Winter's
return from Dieppe being expected, and gives his opinion on the
expedition to Newhaven. By the end of October his duties at
Rye were at an end, for on the 31st John Young, Mayor of Rye,
writes to Secretary Cecil that Mr. Waad had departed for London,
and reporting news from Dieppe that all the captains and their
forces were shipped for Newhaven, and that there had been great
loss of English and Scots at Rouen. In November, 1562, Armi-
gel Waad filed his account of receipts and disbursements when
sent to Rye, by virtue of the Queen's letters, and of payments
made to Sir Maurys Denys, Treasurer of the Garrisons in Nor-
mandy. An evidence of Armigel Waad's linguistic attainments
exists in a letter preserved in the Record office from Challoner to
Secretary Cecil. Under date of March 30, 1563, and in relation
to two Spanish papers Challoner advises that " Mr. Hampton or
Mr. Armigil Wade, so sufficient Castilians, shall well trans-
late it."
Waad was scientific for those days. Indeed an English genealo-
gist has not hesistated to describe him as " probably the most
learned Englishman of his day." A linguist of considerable at-
tainments we know he was from his missions. We also find he
he was an inventor, for on January 25, 1565, according to Rymer's
Feeder a, p. 805, a license was issued to Armigil Wade and William
94 The Wade Genealogy.
Herlle, authorizing tliem to manufacture sulphur and oil by a
method which they had invented.
The next entries of record concerning Waad are of quaint in-
terest. It seems that one, Cornelius de Alneto, or De Lannoy,
who signs himself " Philosophic et Jatromathematices Doctor," had
come into England and had evolved a wonderous scheme for mak-
ing gold. Elizabeth, as grasping as all the Tudors, agreed to find the
materials and Cornelius de Lannoy agreed to make the gold. The
correspondence is amusing, but the alchemist soon got into dur-
ance vile. Some curious letters are preserved in the M3S. of the
Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield House, England. Under date
of February 15, 1565, Waad writes to Secretary Cecil from Somer-
set Place, London :
" Mr. Cornelius is presently about to write to the Queen. He
seems more and more to take to heart this lately discovered act,
and can by no means abide West, " the sight of whom stirreth up
his colere." Is himself also much disliked by Cornelius, notwith-
standing his complaisance to him. Sees every day more and more
that this proceeds from their next neighbors. Yesterday Cornelius
was with her (the Princess Cecilia of Sweden), and to-day, in the
company of Montagna, meeteth her and her chaplin in accustomed
place, namely, " at the Red Bull, beyond the Stylyard in Teme-
strete." His treaty with her (as Montagna says) is to get himself
out of the country with all convenient speed, for which purpose
he intends to offer the Queen a sum of money to let him off his
first bargain, and this is the sum of their conferences. Prays Ce-
cil for God's sake to get him despatched, so that there may be no
more reason to trust or make use of him, for he will undoubtedly
deceive them. To satisfy Cornelius, it were not amiss that West
should be ordered for the present to confine himself to the gallery
where he frequently lieth, while seeming to undergo some penance,
he might keep a strict watch on all Cornelius's movements."
Waad writes on February 17 to Cecil "Concerning alleged
malpractices by Cornelius de Alneto, and his obstinate behaviour
under detention. Asks that he may be confronted by Montagna,
and that the whole of the circumstances may be declared by the
latter before his face for otherwise he maketh light of the whole
affair."
He evidently made matters uncomfortable, to say the least of it,
for the alchemist for Cornelius de Alneto writes to Sir W^illiam
Famous English Wades. 95
Cecil on February 22 complaining "of the restraint to which he is
subjected in not being allowed to go forth unless accompanied by
Armigil Wade."
On February 24 Waad writes to Sir William Cecil sending him
by Signor Montagna "the copy of Cornelius' letter to the preacher,
-(Olaf), and the translation of his letter to the Lady Cecilia.
Whatsoever happen Cornelius will say that he hath kept troth,
for his promise and oath was that he would not speak with my
lady nor none of her folks. It seems that his promise did not
extend to writing."
On March 15 Armagil Waad reports to Sir William Cecil the
substance of a conversation between himself and CorneUus de
Alneto on the subject of the latter holding communication with
the Princess Cecilia and her household. The thrifty Yorkshire-
man also sent in an offer from " my brother Merbury " to supply
French wines for the use of Her Majesty's household at 20 nobles
the tun.
The alchemist evidently soon desired to seek a kinder patron,
for on March 23 Waad writes to Sir William Cecil stating at
length his reasons for suspecting that Cornelius de Alneto is
about to leave the country, and suggesting various grounds on
which he might be justly detained, such as his failing to perform
his promises to her majesty within the given time, etc.
How carefully Waad watched the luckless alchemist, appears
from his letter to Sir William Cecil of March 7 . Writing from
Somerset Place, he says that a certain person, (clearly Cornelius de
Lannoy), has arranged the plan of his departure. Waad sends
particulars as to the medecine or elixir he carries with him and
proposes his arrest. He also writes as to the irons for casting
ingots and other things for projection he takes with him. The
alchemist seems to have been a man of many inventions, for on
August 7, 1565, Waad writes from his house at Belsize to Sir
William Cecil, detailing the progress of the manufacture of glass
and pottery under Cornelius de Lannoy, relating the clumsiness
of the English glassmakers and recommending the suits of Henrie
Liteshowe, Mr. Prestoll and William Herle. He also incloses a
note of payments made by Arm. Waad to Cornelius de Lannoy
on account of the glassworks.
96 The Wade Genealogy.
But the fortune of this Edison in advance of his age spee dily
suffered a reverse. As did many another, he saw the inside of a
dungeon in the Tower of London. On July 15, 1566, Armigel
Waad writes from Belsize to Sir WiUiam Cecil, that he has repaired
to the Tower and examined Mr. Cornelius (Lannoy ?), as to delay
in assays of metals, etc., and sending particulars of the conversa-
tion which took place. Things began to get interesting for the
alchemist by July 29, 1566, for then Armigil Waad writes to the
Earl of Leicester and Sir William Cecil, that the Lieutenant of the
Tower has shown him the letter inclosed, whereof he explains the
meaning of a passage. Cornelius (de Lannoy) has greatly abused
the Queen. Waad inclosed a letter in Latin, from Cornelius de
Lannoy to Leicester and Cecil, in which he enters into a long ex-
planation of his proceedings and begs for mercy from the Queen,
acknowledging his delinquency. How pitiful was the condition of
this charlatan appears from two more of his letters, preserved in
the State paper office. Under date of August 3, 1566, from the
Tower of London, there is a declaration by Co;'nelius de Lannoy
that if it shall please the Queen to release him from confinement
he will without delay put in operation that wonderful elixir for
making gold for her Majesty's service. The letter is in Latin and
is followed by another appeal dated August 13, and addressed to
the Earl of Leicester and Sir William Cecil.
The only result of his appeal seems to have been a permission
(or order), to continue his experiments, for on August 26, 1566,
Sir Francis Jobson, Lieutenant of the Tower, (another Yorkshire
man), and Armigel Waad write to Secretary Cecil that they have
conferred with Cornelius (de Lannoy) on the subject of his letter,
and they forward requisitions made by him for carrying on his al-
chemical operations, for which a small sum of money will be re-
quired. There seems to have been some small show of success,
for on May 28, 1567, Waad writes to Secretary Cecil that he has
taken order, for keeping back all boats on the Thames, and for
bringing Cor. (Cornelius de Lannoy), to court to-morrow. Waad
describes the personal manner of his captive in detail. Waad's
last letter in the State papers is dated shortly before his death and
is addressed to Secretary Cecil in favor of Mr. (Philip) Cockeram,
soliciting that time may be granted to him for the payment of his
{To be contimted.')
Famous English Waues, 97
debt to the Queen, he having been deprived of his place in
the Customs, which he had purchased for a large sum. He
inveighed against the evils of such a system. Besides the
"Observations" on his travels, attributed to him, Waad
was the author of: i. The Distresses of the Commonwealth,
With the Means to Remedy Thejn; an elaborate treatise pre-
served at the Record Office {Cal. State Papers, Dom., 1547-80,
p. 119). 2. Decastichon de receptione ducis Somerset a Londinensibus,
London, 1548, 4to. 3. Carmen in Qbitum Suffolciensium fra-
trum, printed in the collection of verses on the death of the
Dukes of Suffolk'in 1552.
We take up again Park's account in his Hampstead,
which is about the only connected account of Armigel
Waad, if we except Mr. A. F. Pollard's recent and able
article in the Dictionary of National Biography (which was
founded upon ai:\d gives due credit to the present compila-
tion), and there read as follows: " Having gone through
life with honor and reputation, he retired to his mansion
at Belsize {b) at Hampstead, London. He drew his last
breath there in June 20th, 1568 (r). Soon after (says Norden,
Speculum Britanniae, locus Hampstead, page 22), was 'a faire
monument of alabaster raised on the wall of the chancel in
Hampstead Church.' with this inscription:
MEMORIAE SACRUM.
Optimis et clarissimis parentibus A RMIGELLO WA ADO
e Brigantium antiqua familia oriundo. Hen. VIH. et Ed.
VI. Regum secretiori consilio ab epistolis; et in agro Mid-
dlesexiano eirenarchae; qui in maximarum artium disci-
plinis, prudentiaque civili instructissimus, 'plurimarum
linguarum callentissimus, legationibus honoratissimis per-
(6) Curious indeed are the vicissitudes of property. This very
mansion of Belsize where Armigel Wade died, came after many years
in the hands of others, to the possession of Sir Spencer Maryon- Wil-
son, Baronet, connected by marriage with the family of Wade, and
to-day is in possession of his descendants, related on the mother's
side to Wades, who claim, with some certainty, to be descendants of
Armigel, the English Columbus.
(c) Sir William Wade gives the exact hour of his father's death in
an entry in Eberus' Calendar, stating that his father died at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon and without a struggle, and that he was buried in
the church at Hampstead {Ratolinson MS. , Bodleian Library),
[7]
98 The Wade Genealogy,
tunclus et inter Britannos Indiarum Americanum explora-
tor primus. Ex duabus conjugibus, Alicia Patencia et
Anna Merburia, 20 liberos progenuit, tandemque, post
vitam honorifice et pientissune defunctam, anno virginei
partus, 1568, mensis Junii die 20 in Domino placide obdor-
muit, Et ALICIAE PATENCIAE quae patri 17 liberos
peperit, e quibus duo viri et tres femellae adhiic in vivis
existunt, quae vita- castissime et temperatissime transacta,
anno salutis humanae 1568 animam pientissimam Redemp-
tori reddidit. GULIEMUS WAADUS, filius maximus
natu, et haeres, idemque divae Elizabethae Reginse concillio
secretiori ab epistolis, hoc monumentum posuit.
which may be rendered -into English about as follows:
"Sacred to the memory of Armigel Waad, the best and
most kind of parents, a descendant of an ancient Yorkshire
family, Secretary of the Privy Council of Henry VIII. and
Edward VI., and a Justice of the Peace for the County
of Middlesex, who, proficient in very many of the most
important arts, excellently versed in civil jurisprudence,
very familiar with many languages, discharged divers most
honorable embassies and was the first English explorer of
the Indies of America. By his two wives, Alice Patten and
Anne Marbury, (</) he gave to the world twent}' children,
and after a life honorably and most conscientiously passed,
died in the spring of the year 1568, when on the 20th day
of June he placidly fell asleep in the Lord. And to Alice
Patten, who bore to her husband seventeen children, of
whom two sons and three daughters at present survive,
who, having lived her life most chastely and piously, re-
turned her soul to her Creator in the year of our Lord 1568.
William Waad, the eldest son and heir, and also Secretary of
the Ladv Elizabeth's Privy Council, has erected this monu-
ment." '
Lysons, in \\\% Envirotis of London^ Vol. II., p. 532, falls
into the error of calling Armigel Waad a knight, and as
erroneously states that Sir William Waad was buried at
Hampstead. He says that the parish registers do not men-
tion either burial, but do contain baptisms and burials of
several children of Armigel and William Waad. He
records in the churchyard a tomb of Abigail, wife of John
{d) Anne Marbury's mother was Agnes, daughter of Lynne
of Northampton. (See Visitation of London in 1568, Harleian So-
ciety Publications, Vol. I, p. 51).
THE LIBRARY
BRI6HAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
PROVO. UTAH
Famous English Wades. 99
Whorwood, Esquire, of Stourton Castle, and daughter of Sir
William Waad, with the date worn off.
Unfortunately, Hampstead Church was entirely rebuilt
in 1745, and has been since that date, twice restored
and enlarged. At the hands of the iconoclastic restorer
this " faire alabaster monument " has disappeared. Nor
do the church registers, which commence in 1560, afford
any material assistance as to the genealogy of these
Wades. Writing to the compiler as recently as March 24,
1896, the Reverend Sherard Burnaby, vicar of the parish,
states that there are no entries in the baptismal registers
of the name Wade or Waad.
A further and extremely probable solution of Armigel
Waad's unusual christian name is to be gathered from
the appendix to Lower's Patronymica Britannica. He defines
Armigill as an ancient Teutonic personal name, formerly
Hermengild, and says that the Roman Catholic Church
honors a confessor called Armagill on August 16. It is
possible, therefore, that our ancestral hero, born in an age
when Catholicism, was the state religion of England, in a
district where the monks were the principal landowners,
saw the light on August 16, and was named in honor of the
Romish confessor.
Armigel Waad's will was undated. It describes him as
of ' Belsis in Hampsted, Middlesex, Esquire.' In it he
desires to be buried "in the chancell of Hampsted church,
so nye to my late wife as may be." He devised to his son,
Thomas Waad, ' his land and house at Golding Lane and
the chamber by him buylded in Graye's Inn.' To his son
William he devised 'his leases of Belsye and Lavenden
and his rectory of Horton Kirby in the County of Kent.'
His will mentions his daughter, Joyce; his godson, Armigill
Cockaram; and his wife's daughters, Anne and Juditlie
Bradley. He disinherited his daughter Ann, "for her dis-
obediencies sake." Mr, Justice Southcott, Mr. Wilbrame,
and his son, Robert Jones, were appointed overseers. The
will was proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop
of Canterbury, Feb. 5, 1569-70, by William Waad, the son
loo The Wade Genealogy.
and executor, and is to be found recorded in Register- 6
Lyon, in the Principal Registry of the Probate Division of
the High Court of Justice, at Somerset House, Strand,
London.
Sir William Waad seems to have had the usual troubles
of an executor and to have become involved in law suits
with the Philip Cockeram mentioned in his father's will.
Under August, 1568, he entered in his copy of Eberus'
Calendar^ and in Latin, "that he was despoiled of his patri-
mony and put out of the possession of Belsize House by
authority of the Court of Exchequer, and thus most
iniquitously robbed by Philip Cockeram, citizen of Lon-
don." Thomas Rawlinson, who copied Sir William Waad's
notes, says of them, "falling upon Pauli Eberi Calendar ium,
which was Sir WylHam Waad's' Lieutenant of the Tower,
in spare parts of the leaves left on purpose by Eberus, I
find these notes: 'Upon Martin's Day I was restored to
the possession of my father's estate of Belsize.' " {^Rawlin-
son MS. D., i]6o, fo. 61-3, in the Bodleian Library, Uni-
versity of Oxford, and by the kind courtesy of the Rev'd
Dr. Macray, F. S. A). In the British Record Office are
traces of this litigation. Under August, 1568, is preserved
'* a declaration by William Wade of the sinister dealing of
Mr. Cockerham towards him, before and after the death of
Mr. Wade's father," and another document dated March
27, 157 1, endorsed by Lord Burghley, "between William
Wade and Cockeram," sets forth the state of the debt for
which Mr. Cockeram stands bound.
5. Arthur Wade (son of Wade) of Kilnsea, York-
shire.
Married : — Elizabeth (daughter of ).
Issue : —
26. Christopher Wade, b. about 1591.
Arthur Wade was buried at Coniston, Yorkshire,
Oct. 26, 1612. His widow was buried there July 9, 1612.
9. William Waad (son of Armigel), born 1546; died 25
Oct., 1623.
POBTBAIT AND FACSIMILE AUTOGEAPH OF SiK WlLLIAM WaAD, KnIGHT.
Famous English Wades. ioi
Married: — I, Anne (daughter of Owen Waller); {e)
married 1586 (Bishop of London's license, Jan. 15,
1585-6), born about 1570; died 1589.
Married: — 11, Anne (daughter of Sir Humphrey
Browne), (/) died 1645.
Issue :
27. Armigel Waad, Student of Gray's Inn, d. Nov. 4,
1611, at the Tower, bur. at Hampstead {g).
28. James Waad, Student of Gray's Inn, b. 1611.
29. Armenia Gildea Waad, (/«) m. Charles Mordaunt of
Thunderly, Essex ( Visitation of Essex in 1665).
30. Alice Waad, m. Philip Cage of Hormead (/).
31. Elizabeth Waad, m. Edmund Lenthall.
32. Mary Waad, m. John.Holgate of Saffron Walden,
Essex; bur. there April 24, 1654 [j ).
33. Abigail Waad, m. John Whorwood of Stourton
Castle; bur. at Hampstead (A).
(e) Owen Waller, citizen and stocktishmonger of St. Michael, nigh
Crooke Lane end, London, and Sybton, Suffolk, "where I was born,"
left a will proved in 1576. (Reg. 27, Martyn. P. C. O). Anne Waller,
his daughter, was born 1571. The Inquisition post mortem as to
Owen Waller is dated 16, Elizabeth, June 1. Anne Waller of St.
Alban, Wood Street, London, first wife of Sir William Waad, " con-
spicuous in disposition, genius and family," died in the nineteenth
year of her age, in childbirth, and is buried under a " Fair Marble
Monument in oval," in the parish of St. Albans, Wood Street, in
Cripplegate Ward, London. Stow's Siirveii of London, III, 586,
gives the inscriplion upon the tomb of Anne Waller, the first wife of
Sir William Waad, as follows : " DeoTrino & Uno Opt. Max. Sacrum,
ac Aeternae Memoriae ornatissimae & laudatissimae feminae, Annae
Walleriae in Icenis oriundae. unius atq. unicae parentum prolis.
Ingenio, Genio & Genere conspicuae : Gulielmi Waadi, Regii con-
sistorii sanctiorisque Concilii Serenissimae Heroinae Dominae Eliz-
abethae, Angliae, etc., Reginae, a secretis, Conjugis. Quae annos
enataXIX, inpuerperiocalendas Septembris, annoSalutis Jesumerito
restitutae, OIqIoXIC ex hac peritura ad perennam vitam emigravit.
Oui Placide in Christo gentis humanae sospitatore obdormienti, hoc
mortale immortalisamoris Monumentum conjuxmoestissimusposuit. "
Stow relates that this inscription was on a fair marble monument in
oval on the right hand of the chancel of St. Albans Church, Wood
Street, London, and that Sir William Waad's tomb was there with
many quarterings on its armorial escutcheon. But Sir William was
buried at Manuden, Essex, and Anne Waller alone rests there.
(/■) There was some confusion as to Sir William Waad's second wife.
Walfordsays he married as his second wife, a daughter of Sir Thomas
Wotton, who, surviving as his widow, left Belsize to her son by her
first husband, Charles Henry de Kirkhoven. Sir Bernard Burke
says that Katherine, daughter of Thomas Lord Wotton, married first,
Henry Lord Stanhope, secondly, John Poliander Kirckhoven (by
whom she had a son, Charles Henry Kirckhoven), and thirdly, Colonel
Daniel O'Neale. '
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Walford's statement, as impuocned by Burke, is further rendered
untrustworthy by 2Vie Life of Thomas BushelL (Lord Bacon's ser-
vant), which states that he married Anne, widow of Sir William Waad,
Lieutenant of the Tower. This is 8upT)orted by the Registers of
Westminster Abbey (edited by Colonel J. L. Chester), wherein, at
page 183, we find : " Coll. Bushell buried in the Cloisters, April 24,
1G74. He was married to Dame Anne, widow of Sir William Waad,
Lieutenant of the Tower and Clerk of the Privy Council, who died
in 1623. Dame Anne died in 1645. His former wife was Isabell.
(See the Church Registers of Enstone, Oxfordshire)."
The monument to the memory of Colonel Daniel O'Neale in Bough-
ton Malheibe Church, soon disposes of Walford's theory. It was
erected by the Et. Honorable the Countess of Chesterfield, his widow.
He died 1663, aged 60, and she survived him, dying in 1667, whereas
Anne, widow of Sir William Waad, died in 1645. O'Neale was Ser-
geant Major in the 14th Regiment of the King's Army, was sent to
the Tower by the Parliament, escaped in women's clothes, fled to the
Low Countries, and thence joined the King in the Civil War. He was
the only Protestant in his family, the famous O'Neales of Ulster,
and his monument describes him as Postmaster General of England,
Scotland and Ireland, Master of the Powder and Groome of His
Majesty's Bedchamber.
[g] Under date of November 4, 1615, Sir William Waad thus wrote
in his copy of Pauli Eberi Calendarium : " My eldest sonne, Armi-
gill Waad, a child of great witte, modesty, p.yety, and discretion
above his age, decessed at the Tower, about five of the clocke in the
evening, of age above seven yeares. and is buryed at Hamstead, anno
Dni 1611." {Raivlinso7i MSS. in Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS. D.
1160, fos. 61 b-3).'
[h) In his excellent biographical sketch of Sir William Waad in the
Dictionary of National Biography, "Mr. A. F. Pollard says : "The
elaborate flourish Waad gave to his initial W. has been misread as
W. J. (also William Gildea, s. c. w.), and is printed as W. J. in the
Acts of the Privy Council, 1588-9, passim; if it were not a mistake,
it would be the earliest instance by more than fifty years of the use
of a double christian name in England." So be it, as regards Sir
William Waad, but the biographer, with a transcript of this com-
piler's notes before him, failed to notice that Sir William Waad's
daughter was clearly entitled to Juvenal's quotation Tanquam habeas
tria nomina {Satires. V, 137), for in the Visitation of the County of
Essex in 1665 (pedigree Mordaunt of Thunder ly), she is expressly
described as Armenia Oilday Wade, and as born about 1620 would
seem entitled to the distinction of being the first English woman to
bear a double christian name. There was some reason tor the second
name, as Sir William Waad is described on his tomb as ''Superin-
tendent of the soldiery in Ireland," and Gildea we find from Lower's
Patronymica Britannica is an Irish name and of the blood royal of
Ireland.
[i] Philip Cage of Hormead married, first, Elizabeth Thornton of
Hygham, in the County of Norfolk, by whom he had issue Robert,
John and Anne. He married secondly, Alice daughter of Sir William
Waad of Mallendine (Manuden) in Essex. The Bishop of London's
license for the second marriage is dated December 6, 1621, and names
the church of Stocking Pelham in the County of Hertford, as the
place of the marriage (Chester's Marriage Licen^s). By the second
Famous English Wades. 103
Sir William Waad deserves more extended treatment
than the limits of a genealogy can afford or accord. He
was, according to Mr. A. F. Pollard's article in the Diction-
ary of National Biography^ (which gives due credit to the
compiler's collections), clerk of the Privy Council, diplo-
matist, and Lieutenant of the Tower. He received by will,
one-half of the family property, his father's sons by his
first wife having predeceased hi n. In 157 1 he was
admitted a student of Gray's Inn, and a few years later,
doubtless with a view to entering the service of the gov-
ernment, he began travelling on the continent. Waad m
his copy of Eberus' Calendar supplies the exact dates of one
of his journeys, if not his first one, to France. Under May
he writes: " I tooke my jorney into Fraunce with Capitayne
Layton, A. D. 1574, where I remayned thre yeares." Under
another. May, he enters: " I came out of Fraunce from
Tours to Greewiche {sic) Ano Dni. 1577 {Rawlinson MS.,
Bodleian Library).
In July, 1576, he was residing at Paris, and frequently sup-
plied political information to Burghley, whose 'servant 'he
is described as being (cf. Lamdowne MSS. 23, Art. 75). He
claimed familiar acquaintance with the celebrated French
publicist, Jean Bodin, from whom he seems to have
derived some of the news he forwarded to Burghley. In
the autumn of 1576, Sir Amyas Paulet took Wade to Blois
marriage there were issue children named, William, Anthony, Thomas,
Abigail, Elizabeth and Mary. As to this family of Cage, see Chaun-
cy's History of Hertfordshire, Vol. I, p. 271.
(y) John Holgate of Saffron Walden, Essex, and of the Middle
Temple, gentleman, was born in 1626, and died May 5, 1673. He
married first, Acne, daughter of Kichard Plomer (Plummer) of
Saffron Walden, gentleman, and secondly, Mary, daughter of
William Waad of Battles in Essex. There was issue of the second
marriage, Armigel Holgate (baptized at Saffron Walden, 1638, buried
there April 4, 1639), Robert Holgate died young, and Anne Holgate,
who married James Monteith (of the noble Scotch- family of that
name), died January 5, 1685. Mary (Waad) Holgate was buried
in St. Mary's Church, at Saffron Walden, April 24, 1654, under a
ledger stone at the west end of the church. This stone with its quaint
Latin inscription is reproduced in photographic facsimile va. Miscel-
lanea Oenealogica et Heraldica. For particulars of the Holgate
family see Berry's ^s.sex' Genealogies, p. 115.
[k] Lysons' Environs of London, Vol. II, p. 533.
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{Calendar State Papers, Foreign, \^^^-i, passim). During the
winter of 15789, he was in Italy, whence he forwarded to
Burghley reports on its political condition. From Venice
in April, 1579, he sent the lord-treasurer fifty of the rarest
kinds of seeds in Italy {Cal. Hatfield MS. II, 254). In May,
he was at Florence, and in February, 1579-80, he was
residing at Strasburg, furnishing Burghley with informa-
tion on the state of Germany. An abstract of one of his
curious letters must suffice. It runs as follows:
My desire hath been great, and my endeavour hath not
wanted, to give your Lordship some certain informations
of the doings which are. here in hand. The which are
sealed with such secrecy, and coloured with reports,
as neither by intelligence, nor by the opinion of men, is
there any knowledge to be had. So as it m.ust be even the
discourse of reason that m.usL open the way to conceive of
these matters, whereunto and how unable I am, by the weak-
ness of my understanding, and the small acquaintance I
have of the affairs of these parts, the simpleness of my
former advertisements do not dissemble. On the one side,
I never do look for good where those are the intermeddlers
that do deal therein ; on the other, am led to think that the
Duke Casimir would never have been brought to any
colloquy with the Guises, but upon hope of great matters,
as he maketh preparations for all things necessary to some
voyage.
The French king wrote unto him to Nancy that he
understood Casimir meant to trouble France again, under
colour to be paid of that was owing for the last voyage, for
the discharge of which the king assured him he would
take present order, and to that end was already at hand to
assemble the estates.
The Duke George John of Liteshowe, of the Palgrave's
house, doth make an ariny, and wrote to the late assembly
that the Duke Gasimir's reiters made at Magdeburg that he
was to make a great levy of reiters for the service of a
great Prince, whereto he invited them., with assurance to
be well paid, and they say he shall have footmen out of
France.
The Guises hold at this present a diet at Basle (the place
of their general assembly), where are both the French and
the Spanish Ambassadors. It should seem by divers
circumstances, that either the attempting somewhat in the
French count}' (Franche Comte) is the pretence, or intended
Sir William Waad, Knight.
Famous English Wades. 105
indeed. But I doubt not that all those notions which
seem to have contrary courses, come from one mover, and
tend to one end. Wherein what the occurrences of the
time shall bring to light, I shall advertise your Lordship,
which shall be but to report that your wisdom doth already
foresee.
There is kept at this present a diet at Possonia in
Hungary, where the Archduke Ernest doth supply the
emperor's absence, with whom the Hungarians are not well
pleased, and, as they say themselves, would willingly be
under the King of Poland.
The Polack hath made truce with the Muscovite, doubt-
ing the Turk by reason of an overthrow. Vorosky, a
banished Polack, hath given [?] to certain Turks, which
the Great Turk imagines he has done by the secret comfort
of the King, in hope to be restored.
They that come this way out of Italy speak great things
of the preparations the Spanish King doth make at Naples
for shipping.
Being able to advertise your Lordship nothing else, I
humbly beseech you to think the zeal of my good will doth
spring from that root that shall want but the dew of your
good opinion and favour to yield your humble and faithful
service. And I always do beseech the Lord God to
increase your contentments according to your good desires.
From Strasburg, 7th of March, 1580," 2 pages and seal.
In the following April he was employed on some delicate
mission in Paris by Sir Henry Cobham (the suggestion in
the Calendar of State Papers (Venetian), that he was Ambas-
sador to Spain and Portugal in 1579 is evidently a mistake).
In 1581 he seems to have returned to England, and
entered the service of Sir Francis Walsingham as secretary,
and in 1583 he became one of the clerks to the Privy
Council, the register of which is missing for this period
[ib. Dom., 1611-18, p. 198). In April of that year he was
sent to Vienna to discuss the differences between the Hanse
Towns and the English merchants abroad, and in July
he accompanied Lord Willoughby on his embassy to Den-
mark, to invest the king with the insignia of the Garter,
and to negotiate an agreement on mercantile affairs (Birch's
Metnoirs of the Reign of Elizabeth, Vol. I, p. 24, 31.)
Waad left this curious Latin account of his mission in
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Eberus' Calendar : — "April, 1583, A serenissima Regiiia ad
Imperatorem Rudolphum ablegatus per Galliam, Viennam
petii, inde in Hungariam. Finita legatione, per Hiber-
niam (sic) et Germaniam, Etnden iisque, inde per Frisiam,
Hollandiam et Zelandiam reversus, August 2r,eodem anno"
{Rawlinson MS., Bodleian Library). Lord Chancellor Hard-
wicke had many State papers relating to Waad copied in
his MSS., which are now the property of the New York
Public Library, and the British State Paper office contains
very many of his letters and reports. But to transcribe
them would be to transgress the limits of a genealogy and
transform the present compilation into a biography of Sir
William Waad.
How prominent a figure in history Sir William Waad
was appears from Froude's History of England^ wherein,
Vol. XI, we find that in January, 1583-4, Queen Elizabeth
sent him as Ambassador to Philip II, King of Spain, at
Madrid, to explain the expulsion from England of Don
Bernardino de Mendoza, the Spanish Ambassador. On his
arrival at Madrid in March, Philip refused to admit Wade
to his presetace or to listen to any justification. A second
and more pressing application for an audience was equally
unsuccessful. The English Ambassador, like Mendoza,
was directed to depart, and was told also, " in dark and
doubtful terms, that he was favorably dealt with and might
have looked for worse entertainment." See also [Cotton
MSS,, Vesp. C. VII, p. 392; Cal. State Papers, Simancas,
1580-6, pp. 516, 520-1; Birch, Vol. I, pp. 45, 48; Froude,
Vol. XI, pp. 414, 422). He was back in England on 12
April, and with his return diplomatic relations between
England and Spain ceased. In the same month Waad was
sent to Mary Stuart to induce her to come to terms with
Elizabeth, and his account of the interview at Sheffield, is
printed by Froude [History of England, Vol. XI, pp. 448-51).
In February, 1584-5, he was appointed to accompany Nau
to the Court of James VI, but was stopped at the last
minute {Cale?idar of State Papers, Simancas, 1580-6, p. 533).
In March, Waad was despatched to Paris to demand the
Famous English Wades. 107
surrender of the conspirator Thomas Morgan. Henry III
was willing- to consider the request, but the Catholic
League and the Guises were violently opposed to it, and
even instructed the Due d' Aumale to waylay Waad and
rescue Morgan on their way to the coast. Waad, however,
convinced that he could not secure Morgan, contented
himself with obtaining a promise that he should be detained
in prison in France, but Aumale nevertheless attacked the
envoy near Amiens, and inflicted on him a severe beating
as an answer to his demand for the extradition of a Cath-
olic from France.
Times change indeed, and one shudders to imagine the
result of beating an English Ambassador at the present
day.
In August, 1585, Waad accompanied William Davison to
the Low Countries to negotiate an alliance with the States-
General. A year later he took a prominent part in arrang-
ing the seizure of Mary Stuart's papers which implicated
her in the Babington plot. He himself went down to
Chartley in August, 1586, and while Mary was decoyed
away on a hunting expedition, arrested her secretaries
Nau and Curie, and, having ransacked her cabinet,
carried back a valuable collection of 60 ciphers and other
papers to London {ib. 1580-6, pp. 625-6; Amyas Poulet,
Letter-Books, pp. 288, sqq. ; Froude, Vol. XII, p. 160, sqq. ).
For this important service he was paid thirty pounds [Acts
P. C, 1586-7, p. 211). In the following February he was
again sent to France to explain the execution of Mary
Stuart, to demand the recall of De I'Aubespine, the French
Ambassador, on the ground of his dependence on the League
and complicity in Strafford's plot, and to justify Elizabeth's
detention of French shipping. For some time he was
denied audience, the recall of the French Ambassador was
refused, but more success attended his endeavour to arrange
the dispute about the detention of French shipping in
England, and English shipping in France {Cal. State Papers,
Venetian, 1581-91, pp. 475, 477, 483, 492, 517, 527, 533).
He returned to England in June.
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This was the last of Waad's diplomatic missions. He
seems to have been a Member of Parliament for Aldborough
in Suffolk, in 1585, for Thetford in Norfolk, in 1588,
for Preston in Lancashire, in 1601, and for West Looe in
Cornwall, from 1604 to i6ri. Waad was mainly occupied
with his duties as clerk of the Privy Council, and especially
in tracking treasonable practices and examining Jesuits
and recusants. His zeal m these pursuits gained him the
reputation of being the chief persecutor of the Catholics
[tb. Dom., 1601-1603, p. 199; cf. Lansdowne MS., 6;^, 66, 145,
148, 153; Law, The Archpriest Controversy, Vol I, pp. 84, 85,
155, 208, 2 [2, 215, 226; Foley, Records, Vol. IV, passim).
As early as September, 1584. he had, when Walsingham's
secretary, gained great credit by piecing together and deci-
phering the fragments of the treasonable document which
Father William Crichton had torn up on his capture.
He is described as "An active enemy to the Jesuits. "
"About 1584," we read, " Creighton (Crichton), a Scottish
Jesuit, being taken by Dutch pirates, tore up certain papers
and attempted to throw them into the sea; but the wind
brought them back to the ship; which, being delivered to
Sir William Waad, were jojmed again, and revealed new
plots of the Pope, the Spaniards and Guisians to invade
England, etc." In Bishop Carleton's Thankful Remembrance
of God's Mercy (1624), is a small picture of Waad, repre-
sented in the act of putting the fragments of these treason-
able papers together.
(The story, sometimes described as ridiculous, is undoubt-
edly true; see Mr. T. G. Law in English Historical Review,
Vol. VIII., p. 698). From this time (1584), Waad was fre-
quently engaged in bringing to light plots against the
Queen's life, among them that of Dr. Roderigo Lopez in
1594, of which Waad drew up a narrative, still extant at
the British Record Office [State Papers, Domestic, Vol.
CCXLVIII., art. 7), and Essex's Rebellion in 1601 (see Car-
leton. Thankful Remembrance; Calendar State Papers, Domes-
tic, \^q\-\6oT,, passitn.).
Waad found abundance of like occupation under James
Famous English Wades. 109
I., by whom he was knighted on 20 May, 1603. During
the summer and autumn he was busily engaged in tracking
out the Main and By plots. On 12 November, he conducted
Raleigh from the Tower to stand his trial at Winchester
(Gardiner, History^ Vol. I., p. 123; Calendar State Papers,
Domestic, 1603-10, pp. 27, 35), sitting as one of the judges
nained in the special commission. After his trial, Cobham,
according to Sir Anthony Weldon, wrote: 'That villain
Wade did often solicit me, and, not prevailing, got me, by
a trick, to write my name on a piece of white paper, which
I, thinking nothing, did; so that if any charge came under
my hand, it was forged by that villain Wade, by writing
something above my hand without my consent or knowl-
edge' (Weldon, Court and Character of James I. (Ed. 18 ii),
Vol. I., p. 350). It is hinted that Waad behaved in a simi-
lar manner with regard to the confession of Thomas Win-
ter, in the examination of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators.
On August 15, 1605, Sir William Waad was appointed
Lieutenant of the Tower of London. When the Gunpow-
der Plot was discovered in the following November, he
gave the first correct information of the whereabouts of
Thomas Percy, one of the leaders in the conspiracy. His
letter to Salisbury (No. 14, Gunpowder Plot Book) is curious,
and as follows:
"It may please your good Lordship, my cousin Sir Ed-
ward York (/) being lately come out of the North and
coming this afternoon to me, upon speech of the happy
discovery of this most monstrous plot, he telleth me be
met Thomas Percy, the party sought for, going down to the
North disguised, whereupon I thought good to send my
cousin Yorke to your Lordship that he may relate so much
to your honoured Lordship. From the Towar in haste, this
5th November, 1605.
At the Commandment of
Yr. honoured Lordship,
W. WAAD."
\JL) As to this family of York, see Visitation of London by Cooke,
Clarenaieux, 1568, Harleian Society Publications, Vol. I., p. 81. Sir
John York of Goldthwayt, Yorkshire, was knighted at Whitehall, 16
June, 1560, and died in London, a citizen of York, in 1568. His
will is proved in Kegister 4, Sheflfeld, Prerogative Court of Canter-
bury (1568).
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The historian, S. R. Gardiner, in his pamphlet " The
Truth About Gunpowder Plot'' (1897), says:
" Two other letters from the Lieutenant of the Tower,
written on the Fifth of November, to Salisbury, are among
the Gunpowder papers. Waad, ' says Gardiner,' was after-
wards most indefatigable in all proceedings connected with
the plot. He held the office of Lieutenant of the Tower
for many years, but subsequently was dismissed on suspi-
cion of embezzling some jewels belonging to Lady
Arabella vStuart, and his daughter was imprisoned. His
name is affixed to many of the numerous depositions after-
wards taken."
One of these letters (No. 13, Gunpowder Plot Book), relates
to the Spaniards, and is as follows:
" It may please your honourable Lordship, I thought it
very fit yr. L. should know that the people in these parts
do so murmur and exclaim against the Spaniards as may
grow to further mutiny or disorder, if some good severe
order be not taken to prevent the same. Mr. Cole dwelleth
hard by, who, if your Lordship think fit, may have direc-
tions to be in readiness, if anything should be attempted,
to appease the same; which I reserve to yr. Lordship's
graiver judgment, and sorest ever, very humbly,
At the c. of yr. h. L.,
W. WAAD."
The other (No. 12, Gunpowder Plot Book), seems to be a
letter of congratulation, merely. The expressions Waad
used are curious.
" As nothing is more strange unto me than that it should
enter into the thought of any man living to attempt any-
thing against a sourain prince of so sourain goodness, so
I thanke God on the knees of my soul that this monstrous
wickedness is discovered; and I beseech God all the
particularityes may be layed open and the traiterous
wretches receive their deserts. I thanke God all my pris-
oners are safe: My care hath of late been the more be-
cause we have been extraordinarily warned by such accy-
dents I told yr. L. , and the night watches are the severest
of any fort in Christendom. * * * j wish
impreservation to your Lordship, on whose good the good
of his Majesty and the whole estate doth very nerely de-
Famous English Wades. hi
pend. From the Towar of London, this 5th November,
1605.
Humbly at the
Commandment of
Yr. h. L.,
WM. WAAD."
" Because 1 know all the gates of London are kept, I have
brought all the warders into the Tower, and set a watch
at the posterns and the gate of St. Katharine and at the
landing strands."
Sir William Wade also wrote to Salisbury, on November 8,
1605 {^Gunpowder Plot Book, No. 48 B.) :
" I find this fellow. Gay Fawkes, who this day is in a most
stubborn and perverse humour, as dogged as if he v/ere
possessed : Yesternight I had persuaded him to set down
a clear narration of all his wicked plots from the first enter-
ing to the same to the end they pretended, with the
discourses and projects that were thought upon amongst
them, which he undertook (to do), and craved time this
this night to bethink him the better; but this morning he
hath changed his mind and is (so) sullen and obstinate as
there is no dealing with him."
Guy Fawkes' confession is dated the ninth of November,
and is witnessed by Sir Edward Coke, Sir William W^aad
and. Forsett. Winter's confession is dated November 23,
1605, and is attested by Sir William Waad. There is noth-
ing to show that Winter's evidence was procured by
torture, except a letter of Waad's, written November 21, in
which he says: " Thos. Winter doth find himself his hand
so strong as after dinner he will settle himself to write that
he hath verbally declared to yr. Lordship, adding that
which he shall remember. " But Winter had been wounded
in the shoulder at Holbeach House and the improvement
may refer to the state of this wound.
The full text of that curious document, the confession of
Guy Fawkes was reproduced in facsimile in the London
Graphic of November 4, 1893, and runs as follows:
"The exaiation of guido fauke taken this 9 of Jan.,
1605: — 'He confesseth that Mr. Catesby tould this exaiat
that Sir Ede Bayneham was derected by him to goe to the
Pope and to acquaint him with the hard estate of the
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Catholiques of England to the end Sir Ede Bayneham
might be there in rediness and the Pope to be by him
acquainted with the succour to be p'pared for the reliefe
of Catholiques after the projecte of the powder had taken
effect and that then such further imployment might have
been made by Sir Ede Bayneham to the Pope as should
have been thought fitte.
Guido Fawkes.
Jo Popham,
Edw. Coke.
W. Waad.'"
Granger says Waad was a man of great learning, gener-
osity and benevolence, who had been employed by Queen
Elizabeth in several embassies, and that he was removed
from the Lieutenancy of the Tower, to make way for Sir
Gervase Elways, a man of a prostitute character, who was
the chief instrument in poisoning Sir Thomas Overbury.
Lloyd tells us that Sir William Waad's directions we owe
Rider's Dictionary, to his encouragement. Hooker's Ecclesias-
tical Polity" [Richard Hooker (1553-1600) "the Judicious
Hooker," author of The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1594);]
and to his charge, Gruter's Inscriptions.
" This excellent man," says a contemporary, " employed
a faithful and judicious friend to admonish him of every-
thing that he saw amiss in his conduct."
That he was of the goodly company of learned men of
those days appears from the pen of Nicholas, who, in his Life
of William Davison (secretary to Queen Elizabeth), p. 215,
also quotes a letter from Francis Davison to his father
William Davison, wherein he ''desires to be recommended
to Mr. Anthony and Mr. Francis Bacon " [Anthony and
Francis Bacon are, of course, the famous Francis Bacon,
Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Alban (1561-1626), and his
brother], "and Mr. Wade and the rest of my dear and
honorable friends."
In 1612, John Taylor, the Water Poet, dedicated his early
publication, The Sculler, "To the Right Worshipful! and
worthy favourer of learning, my singular good Master, Sir
William Waad, Knight," etc. And in his Farewell to the
Famous English Wades. 113
Tower Bottles (1622), the Water Poet thus refers to his
patron : —
•' And now I talk of three, just three we are.
Two false Black bottles and myself at jar
And reader, when you read our cause of strife
You'll laugh or else lie down, I'll lay my life.
But as remembrance lamely can rehearse
In sport, I'll rip the matter up in verse
Yet first here down I think it fit to set
By what means first, I with these Bottles met
Then stroke your beard, my masters, and give ear
I was a waterman twice four long year.
And lived in a contented happy state.
Then turn'd the whirling wheel of fickle Fate
From water unto wine : Sir William Waad
Did freely and for nothing turn my trade
Ten years almost the place I did retain
And glean' d great Bacchus' blood from France and Spain
*******
But as men's thoughts a world of ways do range,
So as Lieutenants chang'd, did customs change."
Sir William Waad, subscribed ^75 to the funds of the
Virginia Company, and actually paid ^144, 10s. He was
one of those who purchased the Somers Islands (the modern
Bermudas), from the Virginia Company on November 25,
1612, and resigned them to the Crown of England, Novem-
ber 23, 1614.
How important a factor he was in the early colonization
of Virginia fully appears from a perusal of Alexander
Brown's Genesis of the United States, and the Calendar of the
State Papers. We find that Zuiiiga, the Spanish Ambassa-
dor at the English Court, seldom forwarded a report to
his master, without referring to the acts or sayings "of
the Knight Wed," as he styled vSir William Waad, who
was a Member of Council for Virginia in 1606, and a Mem-
ber of Council for the Virginia Company in 1609.
Sir William Waad was one of the chief agents in ferreting
out the Powder Plot (Jardine, Gunpouuler Plot; Gerard,.
IVhat was the Gunpowder Plot? and Gardiner, What Gun-
powder Plot was, passini). Waad's treachery in so doing,
howej^er, rests on most inconclusive evidence. Mural
inscriptions placed by Waad in the Powder Plot room in
the Queen's house of the Tower of London, commemorate
the plot and are still extant (Gerard, pp. 264, 267). This
[8]
114 The Wade Genealogy.
memorial in the form of a panel on the wall, embellished
with Waad's own armorial achievements (/), is in the shape
of a long pious prayer — pagan in form and far from class-
ical in style. It sets forth the virtues and dignities of
those who were to have suffered from the explosion, and
concludes with a votive offering from the Lieutenant of
the Tower, and is here reproduced.
For the curious, the inscription — the work of a time-
serving prototype of Doctor Pangloss — can be found in its
entirety in Brayley's History of the Tower of London. In
English, its concluding paragraphs, wherein the worthy
Lieutenant uses Greek and Hebrew, as well as Latin, run
as follows :
" To Almighty God, the guardian arrestor and avenger
- — Who has punished this great and incredible conspiracy
against our most merciful Lord the King, our most serene
Lady the Queen, our divinely disposed Prince, and the rest
of our Royal House, & against all persons of quality,
our ancient nobility, our soldiers, prelates & judges; the
authors and advocates of which conspiracy, Romanized
Jesuits of perfidious Catholic religion, and by the treason-
ous hope of overthrowing the Kingdom, root and branch;
and which was suddenly, wonderfully and divinely de-
tected, at the very moment when the ruin was impending,
on the 5th day of November, in the year of grace, 1605. —
William Waad, whom the King has appointed his Lieuten-
ant of the Tower, returns on the ninth of October, in the
6th year of the reign of James I, 1608, his great and ever-
lasting thanks."
We find from The Dallison Family Papers that Sir William
Waad had as deputies at the Tower, Sir Roger Dallison,
Sir John Kay and Edward Forsett. In 1608 he was granted
a month's leave of absence. On July 6, and again in 1610,
{D These arms appear in the Visitation of London bif Robert
Cooke, Clarencieux, in 1568, as follows : Quarterly, 1 Azure, a salt-
ire, between i escallops, or. 2, or a chevron, between 3 eagles' heads,
erased sable. 3, Gules, 2 garbs, or. 4, Azure, two bars, argent, on a
chief of the last, 3 maunches, gules. A reproduction of the panel
in question is to be found in Archaeologia, Vol. XII.
Famous English Wades. 115
July j8, the same period of leave of absence was given him.
William Hepworth Dixon {^Her Majesty s Tower) makes many
references to Waad and his unpopularity with his prison-
ers. But jailers, as a rule, are unpopular with their
charges, and Waad's subserviency was a national fault
rather than an individual failing, in the days of the divine
right of Kings.
In 1613, he was dismissed from the Lieutenancy of the
Tower. The closeness with which he guarded Sir Thomas
Overbury and his own integrity proved inconvenient to the
Countess of Essex. He was charged with carelessness in
guarding his prisoners, with allowing Arabella Stuart the
use of a key, and even with embezzling her jewels. These
were mere pretexts, and in May, 1613, Waad was forced to
give way to a more complaisant lieutenant in the person of
Sir Gervase Helwys [Calendar of State Papers, Dom., Vol.
LXXI, p. 84; Amos, Great Oyer of Poisoning, p. 107; Gard-
iner, Vol. 11, p. 179). On 23 August he also resigned his
patent as clerk of the Privy Council.
Henceforth Waad lived in retirement at Belsize House,
Hampstead, and at his house. Battles Hall, near Manuden,
Essex.
Wright's History of the County of Essex (Vol. II, p. 206),
in dealing with the parish of Manuden, says: "Sir
William Waad, Kt., erected the manor house of Battails
(now Battles), which is about a mile from the church. The
name is understood to be from a more ancient family who
had possessions in Little Chishall and other places in the
county, and some of whom were formerly resident in this
parish. From these the estate descended to the families of
Findern and Heron and to Roger Townshend, Esq., of
whom it was purchased by Owen Waller of the family of
that name, of Parham in Suffolk, after whose decease, in
1574, his daughter and heiress, Anne, was married to Sir
William Waade, Knight, many years Clerk of the Council
to Queen Elizabeth and King James the First. A
particular account of Sir William is given in the inscrip-
tion on his monument in Manuden Church."
ii6 The Wade Genealogy.
/
Sir William Wade, as we hav^e said, died at Battailes-
Wade (now called Battles Hall), in the parish of Manuden,
in the County of Essex, on October 21, 1623, and in St.
Mary's Church, Manuden, in the north aisle, is a mural
monument bearing a Latin inscription in gold letters, of
which the following is a translation:
" Sir William Waad, Knight, son of Armigild, Secretary
to the Lady Elizabeth's Privy Council many years, sent
once to the Emperor Rudolphus and to Philip of Spain,
and to Henry HI., King of France, thrice to Henry IV. of
France and Navarre, and once to Mary, Queen of Scotland,
on various occasions of the greatest importance. Commis-
sary-General of England and Superintendent of the Sol-
diery in Ireland, and also Secretary to the Privy Council of
our most serene Lord King James, and Lieutenant of the
London Tower eight years. Afterwards living privately
and religiously till his 77th year, and died at his manor of
Battailes-Wade in the- county of Essex on the 21st daj^- of
October, in the year of our Lord, 1623.
You that have place and charge from prince's trust,
Which honours may make thankful, not unjust.
Draw near and set your conscience and your care
By this true watch of State; whose minutes were
Religious thoughts; whose howers heaven's sacred food;
Whose hand still pointed to the kingdom's good.
And sovereign's safety; Whom, ambition's key
Never wound up to guiltiness, bribe or fee.
Zeale only, and a conscience cleare and even
Raysed him on earth and wound him up to Heaven."
The monument is surmounted by an achievement of Sir
William Wade's arms, with the various marriages quar-
tered and marshalled, as depicted in the illustration used
as frontispiece to the first part of this book. Having fallen
into decay, it was recently and very handsomely restored at
the cost of William de Vins Wade, Esquire, of Great Dun-
mow, Essex, a descendant of this family. Two portraits
of Waad are known, one anonymous, engraved by Jenner,
both being reproduced in half-tone engraving in the
present book. His first wife's property, in East Ham,
involved Waad in prolonged litigation {Acts P. C, 1586-7,
p. 235). (The details in Lansdowne MS. 83, Art. 82,
Frances Wade, daughter of William Wade and his wife Ann (Dean)
From the miniature painted by E. G. Malbone.
Famous English Wades. 117
about an illegal marriage in 1596, indexed as referring to
Sir William Waad, refer to one Michael Wade; a similar
error is made in the Calendar of State Papers^ Domestic, 1601-
3, p. 189).
In the MSS. of the Right Honorable the Earl of Leicester,
at Holkham Hall, in the county of Norfolk, is a collection
of curious epigrams written by the Reverend Thomas
Porter of Hemnall, in Norfolk, about 1623. The compiler
desires to thank that courteous nobleman and his able
librarian for the subjoined curiosity from the Porter collec-
tion, namely an epigram on Sir William Wade: —
Gul; Wade: Militi amico eximo.
Virtutem in cedis magna stipante caterna.
Et tibi Musarum serviet alma cohors
Inq tuo charites pernoctant pectore tumae
His nunquam faniilis incomitatus eris.
Gulielmo Wade militi nuper
Praefecto Turris Londinensis
Intonuit nuper Fortuna et acerba nimata est
Est tua mens tantis illabefacta malis
Armatus virtute es, et indistrictus abibis
Machina virtutis dejicit omne malum.
Gulielmo Wade, Praestanti Militi
Grandius effundit lumen quam luna velastia
Ut Phoebus sic tu quoq. iuna grandius astris
Lumen sonoris habes splendenti aequabile Phoeba
In coelo luna astra et Phoebus nube teguntur
Ecce micant tamen insidia per nubila fulges
Timor virtutis comes est ubi maxima virtus
Maximus est timor sed terq: quaterq, beatus
Usus amicorum cum sit tibi quatuor amplius
Seu mentis patriae, seu Regis Luminis usus
Vade igitur, pie Wade — Deus tibi praemia reddet
Virtus te rede tintem te comitatur euntem
Amatis te stipat honos, te gloria pennis.
Dum dixit regina fidem est experta Jacobus
Est expertus amabat Elisa Jacobus amabit
Mens tua conscia recti : Turris ahenea quamvis
Invida fata fremant invida fata premant
Liber eris tanto curarem pondere dempto
Et posita Sparta jam tibi parta quies
Saepe graves curas comitatur terror et error.
ii8 The Wade Genealogy.
Epigrams on Sir William Wade and on a certain Eras-
mus Wade are also preserved among the manuscripts of the
Marquis of Hertford. They were written by one Daniel
Rogers, in the last quarter of the i6th century. {Historical
MSS., Comitiission, 4th Report, Vol.1., 253).
The Dictionary of National Biography gives these refer-
ences to Sir William Waad :
(Manuscript collections relating to the Wade family by
Stuart C. Wade; Lansdowne M S.^ passim. ; Calendar of State
Papers^ Dom., 1580-1623, Foreign, 1575-7, Spanish, 1580-6,
Venetian, 1581-91; Calendar of Hatfield MSS., Vols. II.-
VI.; Acts of the Priiy Council, edited by Dasent, 1580-90;
Camden's Annals; Stow's Annals; Weldon's Court of James I. ,
pp. 346, 350; Winwood's Memorials; Birch's Memorials of
Elizabeth; Edward's Life of Raleigh; Wright's Elizabeth;
Vol. II., pp. 215, 335, and Essex, Vol. II., p. 208; Nicolas's
Life of Davison, p. 215; Granger's Biogr. Hist.; Brown's
Genesis U. S. A.; Foster's Grays Inn Reg.; Official Eet.
Members of Pari.; Froude's Hist.; Gardiner's Hist.; and
authorities ^above cited.
The State Papers abound with letters written by Waad and
examinations of prisoners attested with his signature. To
do more than to refer to these sources of information would
tax the limits of any genealogical work.
10. Thomas Waad (son of Armigel), born 1547; died Dec,
1594-
Married : — Gertrude (daughter of ).
Lssue : — ?
Thomas Waad was a Reader in the Law (/. e., lecturer on
law at one of the Inns of Court). He died December, 1594.
The principal source of information as to Thomas Wade
is the Rawlinson MS., D. , 1160, fos. 61 b-3, in the Bodleian
Library, Oxford, which records this MS. note by William
Waad in his copy of Pauli Eberi Calendarium. Under
December: — " My brother, Thomas Waad, Esq., a Reader
in the Law, departed this life at four of the clocke in the
afternoon in the year of our Lord God 1594, being of the
Famous English Wades. 119
age of forty-seven, years." The nuncupative will of
Thomas Wade, Esquire, was proved in the P. C. C. , 31 Dec,
1594, by a proctor for Gertrude Wade, the relict and execu-
trix. By it under date 17 Dec. (37 Elizabeth) he bequeathed
all his property to his wife Gertrude. (Reg. 86 Dixy).
Occasional references in the Calendars of the State
Papers show that Thomas Waad obtained some legal work
for the Crown and this by recommendation of his elder
brother, Sir William Waad.
26. Christopher Waue (son of Arthur) of Kilnsay, born
about 1 59 1.
Married : — Margaret (daughter of Cuthbert Wytham),
of Garforth, Yorkshire.
Issue : —
33. Cuthbert Wade, bapt. at Coniston, Nov. 17, 1619.
34. Arthur Wade, bur. at Coniston, May, 1618.
35. Anne Wade, bapt. at Coniston, April 4, 1623 ; bur.
there Aug:. 8, 1623.
36. Margaret Wade, bapt. at Coniston, April 4, 1624 ;
bur. there Aug. 8, 1638.
38' ZZwade' ^" ^^^^^s, bur. at Coniston, April 3, 1626.
39. William Wade, bapt. at Coniston. April 23, 1637.
40. Ehzabeth Wade, bapt. at Coniston, May 13, 1631 ;
m. Edward Warde of North Cotes, Yorkshire.
Christopher Wade was buried at Coniston, Yorkshire
(where all his children were baptized and those dying
young were buried), March 9, 1673. His wife predeceased
him and was buried there, January 22, 1648.
28. James Waad (m) (son of Sir William), aged 19, in 6
Car. I. (/. e., born 1620),
Married : — Frances (daughter of ), born 1628.
Issue : —
(m) From entries in Peprfs Diarij, Oct. 30, 1662. Jan. 14, 1659,
(when he dined there), March 8, 1659, and other dates, we find that
his " old acquaintance Mr. Wade," who lived in Axe Yard, London,
had obtained information as to £7000 in money hid in the Tower.
He seems to have heard this from a female confidant of Barkstede,
Lieutenant of the Tower under Cromwell, but the money mar/ have
been some of Sir William Waad's hiding. The busybody Pepys details
several ineffectual searches and then drops the matter. He also
I20 The Wade Genealogy.
41. William Waad.
42. Anne Waad, b. about 1651 ; m. Sir Edward Bash (n).
James Waad died before July 26, 167 1. His widow mar-
ried Sir Joseph Douglas («?).
33. CuTHBERT Wade (son of Christopher), baptized at
Coniston, November 17, 16 19.
Married : — I. Agnes (daughter of Matthew Brackin
of Litton (Linton ?), in the' County of York; sole
heiress to her father and to Anne, her mother,
daughter of Thomas Litton, of Litton, aforesaid.
She was buried at Coniston, Sept. 17, 1655).
Issue : —
43. Christopher Wade, bapt. at Coniston, Sept. 11,
1641, adm. St. John's College, Cambridge, May
8, 1657; d. young.
44. Cuthbert Wade, bapt. at Coniston, Sept. 20, 1652 ;
d. unm.
45. Margaret Wade.
46. Elizabeth Wade, bapt. at Coniston, Sept. 3, 1640.
47. Anne Wade, bapt. at Coniston, Aug. 11, 1639.
48. Mary Wade, bapt. at Coniston, May 18, 1648.
49. Agnes Wade, bapt. at Coniston, Dec. 21, 1646.
50. Sara Wade, bapt. at Coniston, May 5, 1650 ; bur.
there July 14, 1651. (?)
Married : — II, Dorothy (daughter of Francis Malham
of Eslack, Yorkshire, widow of Nelson of
Carleton). Married at Burnsall, September 6, 1654.
Issue : —
notes that Wade had been to Zeeland and was rallied by his friends
with ' ' making " (i. e. , boodling) -t'500. This 7nay have been the son
of Sir William Waad.
(n) Marriage Licenses of the Vicar General of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, edited by Colonel Chester, contain this entry: — " 1671,
July 26, Edwd. Bash of Stansted Berry, Herts, Esq. Batchr, abt. 19
(his mother's consent) & Mrs. Anne Wade of Battles Co. , Essex Spr. ,
abt. 21 (consent of her mother. Dame Frances Douglas alias Waad),
alleged by Sir Jos. Douglas of Malendine, Co. Essex, Knt. at St.
Mary, Savoy." Le Neve's Knights states that Sir Edward Bashe
of Stanstedbury, knighted at Whitehall March 20, 1671, was living
in 1698, sold all his estate & very poor; married Anne, daughter of
Wade of Battles Essex, Esq., grandchild of Sir William Wade
and sole heir of the family living 1698. No children. As to the Bash
family, see also Chauncy's History of Hertfordshire and Berry's
Hertfordshire Pedigrees.
(o) The marriage license is dated August 1, 1661, was granted by
the Bishop of London and names St. Peter's Church, Paul's Wharf,
London, as the place of the ceremony.
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51. Francis Wade, d. young.
52. Hester Wade, d. young.
Married: — III, Frances (daughter of William Beilby
of Killerby and Micklethwayt Grange, Yorkshire,
widow of Jonas Thompson of Kilhatn and Francis
Dodsworth of Matlas).
Issue : —
53. Cuthbert Wade, b. 1662.
54. Frances Wade. b. 1668-4; m. Feb. 8, 1682-8, at
Coniston, William Serjeantson of Hanlith in
Craven, Yorkshire ; Justice of the Peace for the
North Biding of Yorkshire, b. Nov. 17, 1665, by
whom she had a son, Robert Serjeantson.
Cuthbert Wade is described in the Herald's Visitation
of the County of York, as "one of his Majestie's Justices
of the Peace for this County of Yorke, a captain of horse
in the Army of King Charles the First, and afterwards a
captain of the Trayned Band." He appears from the List
of the Delinquents to have been a zealous Cavalier, to have
been related to the Earl of Cumberland. He was fined for
taking up arms against the Commonwealth, as appears,
ante, p. 6t, (/).
41. William Waad (son of James).
Married: — Anne (daughter of Haynes Barley) of
Clavering, Essex {(/), died 1724.
Issue : —
55. William Waad, d. young.
56. Anne Waad, d. young.
( p) The Earl of Cumberland here referred to was Henry Clifford,
•5th Earl, who died in 1648. (See Banks' Dormant and Extinct
Peerage, Vol. Ill, p. 220).
(g) A search of the church register of Clavering, Essex, fails to
disclose an entry of this marriage, but the courteous Vicar, the Rev-
erend F. G. Nash, reports that there are many gaps in the registers,
and noticeably so at this period. Anne Barley was the daughter of
Haynes Barley of Clavering, Essex, by Margaret, his wife, daughter
of George Oliver of Great Wilbraham. Cambridgeshire. Arms of
Barley. Barry wavy of six, ermine and sable. She was buried at
Manuden, Dec. 1, 1724. In History of Essex, Vol. III., p. 130 (Svo.,
1770), is a long account of her husband's murder. A pamphlet, en-
titled Boteler''s Case in the British Museum, refers to it. As to Mrs.
Betty Ainsworth's part in it, see Pepy's Diary, 7 Oct. , 1667, and May
22, 1668 and Lord Braybrooke's notes. See also Morant's^s.se.r, Vol.
II., pp. 620, 621.
122 The Wade Genealogy.
Captain William Waad was murdered in Jul}', 1667, in a
field near his own house, by an assassin named Parsons.
His rank came from his commission in the Trained Bands.
53. Cuthbert Wade (son of Cuthbert), born 1662.
Married : —Rebecca, (daughter of Sir Robert Mark-
ham, Knt.).
Issue : —
57. Rebecca Wade, bapt. at Oonistori, Dec. 14, 1692.
Cuthbert Wade, Jr., evidently died young as his widow
married II., Thomas Heber, Esq., of Marston and Stain-
ton, Yorkshire, and had by him a daughter, Rebecca He-
ber, who married Roger Nowell, of Rede Hall, Yorkshire,
Esq.
The frequent entries of the name of Wade in the regis-
ters of St. Mary's Chapel at Conistone, in the parish of
Burnsall, Deanery of Craven, West Riding, of the County
of York, leads one to suppose that a careful series of ab-
stracts of the Wade wills at York, Lancaster, Ripon and
Carlisle, would develop the ancestry of Armigel Wade.
Failing to interest his reputed descendants and in the
(faint) hope of others following up his researches, the
compiler prints the entries of Wade in the early Conistone
Registers, followed by a list of the early Wade wills at
York. There is a wealth of genealogical information to
be gathered from abstracts of the wills at York.
EXTRACTS FROM CONISTONE REGISTERS.
22 Elizabeth (1580) Apr. 10, married Christofer Wade and Gennet
Kydde.
1597, June 1. Gennetta uxor Christoferi Wade sepulta fuit. Payd
to ye Ohappell iijs.
1613, Oct. 26. Arthur Wade buried.
1617, May 8. Baptized Arthur, the son of Christofer Wade.
1618, May 4. Buried Arthur, the son of Christofer Wade.
1619, Nov. 17. Baptized Cutbart, the son of Christofer Wade.
1621, May 13. Baptized Elizabeth, the daugter of Chrystofer Wad
1622, June 16. Baptized Anne, the daughter of Chrystofer Wade.
1623, July 9. Buried Elizabeth, the wyfe of Arthur Wade.
1623, Aug. 8. Buried Anne, the daughter of Christofer Wade.
1624, April 4. Baptized Margret, the daughter of Christofer Wade.
1625, June 2. Buried Margret, the daughter of Christofer Wade.
1026, April 3. Buried two infants of Christofer Wade.
Famous English Wades.
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1627,
April
22.
1627,
June
4.
1634,
Mar.
20.
1639,
Aug.
11.
1640,
Sept.
3.
1642,
Sept.
21.
1646,
Dec.
21.
1646,
June
10.
1648,
May
18.
1648,
Jan.
22.
1650,
May
5.
1651,
July
14.
1652,
Sept.
20.
1652,
Sept.
17.
1672,
Dec.
24.
1672,
Mar.
9.
1682,
Feb.
8.
1688,
Dec.
11.
1692,
Sept.
14.
1693,
Nov.
14.
1693,
Jan.
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Baptized Willya, the sonne of Christofer Wade.
Buried Will3'a, the sonne of Christofer Wade.
Buried Francis Wade.
Baptized Anne, daughter of Cuthbert Wade.
Baptized Elizabeth, daughter of Cuthbert Wade.
Baptized Christofer, son of "Cuthbert Wade.
Baptized Agnes, daughter of Cuthbert Wade.
Buried Agnes, daughter of Cuthbert Wade.
Baptized Marie, daughter of Mr. Cuthbart Wade.
Buried Margret, ye wyfe of Mr. Christopher Wade.
Baptized Sarah, daughter of Mr. Cuthbart Wade.
Buried Sara Wade.
Baptized Cutbart, sonne of Cutbard Wade.
Buried Mrs. Agnes, wyfe of Mr. Cutbard Wad.
Buried Francis, ye sonne of Samuell Wade.
Buried Mr. Christopher, the sonne of Arthur Wade.
Married Will Sarjantson and Frances Wade.
Buried Cuth. Wade Esquire in linnen.
Baptized Rebecca, daughter of Cuth. Wade.
Baptized Cuth. Wade, ye sonn of Cuth. Wade.
Buried Mr. Cuth. Wade.
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126 The Wade Genealogy.
loo. William Wade, B. A., Christ's College, Cambridge,
1746 (son of ), born about 1729 (r).
Married: — Margaret (daughter of ).
Issue : —
101. George Wade, b. 1767.
102. Sarah Wade, b. atBraughing, County Hertford, Dec.
25, 1769; m. the Eev. R. Black, Rector of Hutton;
had two sons and one daughter; bur. at Braugh-
ing, Nov. 13, 1826.
103. Anne Wade, bapt. at Braughing, Sept. 18, 1771; m.
the Rev. R. Harvey, Vicar of St. Lawrence, Rams-
gate, Kent; d. June 13, 1827; bur. at St. Lawrence.
104. Fitzjohu Wade, b. at Braughing, Sept. 7, 1773.
104a. Margaret Wade, d. unm.
104b. William Wade, d. Feb. 24, 1790, aged 24.
The Reverend William Wade was instituted as Vicar of
Braughing, July 8, 1761, on the presentation of Jacob
Houblon, Esquire. He may have been the son of the
Reverend William Wade, LL. B., Vicar of the nearby-
church of Standon, in the same County of Hertford, pre-
sented to the living, March 15, 17 19 (on the death of /it's
father, the Reverend John Wade, who had been Vicar of
Standon from October 21, 1670), and who died in 1728. A
monumental inscription in Braughing Church reads as
follows :
" Depositum corpus W. Wade, Braughing, viginti annos
Vicar, qui morti succubuit Ao., 1780, et aet. suae 51.
Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit, nulli flebilior quam
conjugi charae. Near this is also interred his daughter
Mary, who died A. D. 1778, aetate 7 months. Likewise,
the Reverend William Wade, second son of the aforesaid
William Wade, who died February 24, 1790, aetate 24.
(r) It is a matter of sincere regret to the compiler that he could not
persuade the living members of this family to ascertain from the
public records of England the ancestry of this William Wade.
Especially is this so, as the possession of the Wade Horn, and the
use of the peculiar christian name Armigel, fortify the family tradi-
tion of a descent from Armigel. But the Wades are peculiar people.
It will hardly be credited by future generations that of five thousand
living Wades (for the compiler has a mailing list of that number),
over 4500 had not the courtesy to reply to two or three circulars,
while of the less than 500 subscribers, fewer than 25 bore any part
of the serious cost of compilation and publishing. Indeed some
even forgot to pay for their copies of the book.
Famous English Wades. 127
Also Margaret Wade, widow of the aforesaid William
Wade, formerly Vicar of this parish. She deceased April
28, 1798, aetate 60."
A William Wade, B. D., was presented to the living of
Lilley in Hertfordshire, on July 17, 1798, by St. John's
College, Cambridge.
While there is no proof oi a lineal or collateral relation-
ship to Armigel or Sir William Wade, there is more than
a mere probability. I am inclined to believe these Wades
descend from Thomas Wade, son of Armigil and a Reader
in the Law. From an early date there were Wades at or
near Braughing. In the church of the adjoining parish of
Standon, under the efifigies of a man in armor, are these
arms and this inscription in black letter : Arms : on
a bend , 3 hawks' lures , within a bordure ,
charged with roundlets.
" Thy lymes, O Wade yt lately death hath slaine
Under thys stone entered here remaine.
Thy sowle discharged of her bourden great,
Hath made her flight to God in his high state,
Thou doost conquere, and yet conquered art;
Death yeld to thee, and thou unto Death's dart;
Thy bodie is to greedye worms a prey,
Thy sowle with God in Heaven dwell alway.
Vivit post funera virtus
The IVth day of Septemb. , ann. MDcVVII (1557).
This (Guy) Wade was probably the same man who, on
September 13, 1551, was refused a joint patent with Sir
Mauryce Dennys, in the office of Chirographer, and who, on
Augiist 17, 1553, and described as of the Inner Temple,
gave bond in ^100 to the Star Chamber to appear before
the Privy Council and answer charges (See Dasent's Acts
of the Privy Council). A fragmentary pedigree appears
later.
lor. George Wade (son of Rev. William), born 1767; was
an attorney practising at Dunmow, in Essex, about
twenty miles from Braughing.
128 The Wade Genealogy.
Married: — Frances Barbara de Vins [s) about 1795.
(She born November 11, 1775; baptized St. James"
Church, Piccadilly, London, December 11, 1775).
Issue :
105. William Thomas Wade, b. Nov. 9, 1796.
106. Frances Harriet Wade, b. 1797; d. Jan. 4, 1880, unm. ;
bur. Braughing.
107. Sophia Leonora Wade, b. Jan. 14, 1799; d. May 18,
1825; bur. Dunmow.
108. Catherine Sehna Wade, b. 1800; m. William Chrystie
of Balchrystie, Scotland; d. at Great Bookham,
1889.
109. Mary Ann Wade, b. 1801; bnr. at Dunmow, aged (>
months.
110. Emma Fitzjohn Wade, b. Aug. 17, 1802; d. Jan. 13,
1891, unm. ; bur. Great Bookham.
111. Elizabeth Wade, b. Jan. 15, 1804; d. March 13, 1819;
bur. at St. Lawrence, Ramsgate.
112. George de Vins Wade, b. 1805.
113. Charles James Wade, b. 1807.
114. Charlotte Julia Wade, b. 1808; m. Dec. 22, 1825, Sir
John Maryon-Wilson. Baronet; d. March 8, 1895.
115. Armigel Wade, b. 1809: d. Oct. 31, 1842; bur. atKensal
Green.
116. Francis Montresor Wade, b. 1810; officer in British
Army, 44th Eegiment; perished in the retreat
through the Khyber Pass, India, in 1841.
117. John Walter Wade, b. 1812; d. in Edinburg, aged 18.
118. Margaret Ann Wade, b. 1813; m. Edward Humphrey
Wiggetfc.
119. Rachel Susanna Wade, b. 1814; d. unm., 1895; bur.
at Dunmow.
120. Barbara Wade, b. 1817; d. Jan. 4, 1883, unm.
(s) Jacques de Vins, ' Seigneur de Villette en Nivernois partie de
Courvon I'orguelleux au Village d'aurore et d' election de Clamecy,'
left France on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Oct. 22, 1685),
and fled to England with his wife, Marie de Coton. His four sons
were Claude Charles, who married Henriette Villeneuve (and of
whom hereafter) , Charles Loiiis, who became minister of the French
Church of St. Patrick, Dubhn (died without issue), and Isaye Francois,
a lieutenant colonel in the service of the Elector of Saxony, (died in
Saxony without issue) . Claude Charles de Vins' son Richard married
Catherine Cox, and his daughter, Frances Barbara, married George
Wade. A Wade family tradition as to Sir William Wade saving the
life of Le Sieur de Vins at the massacre of St. Bartholomew (Aug.
24, 1572), is easily disposed of hv counting the generations and allow-
ing thirty years for each. Sir William Wade's own MS. notes in
Eberus' Calendar would indicate 1574 as the date of his starting to
France (see ante, p. 103), Arms of de Vins (en Provence): D'azur a
nne tour d'argent sur une terrasse de meme, accostee de deux etoiles
d'or; ocartele d'Agout.
AiiEXANDKR Hamilton Wade. (New Jersey family.
Famous English Wades. 129
George Wade died at Uunmow, Essex, December 10,
1839. His widow died there August 4, 1855, aged 80 years.
104. FiTZjOHN Wade (son of William).
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue: —
121. William O. Wade, b. 1835, at Fort William, Bengal,
India.
132. Christiana Wade, b. at Fort William, Bengal ;
m. General Elliot Minto Playfair, Olst (Argyll-
shire) Eegt. ; d. Oct. 2, 1893, at St. Andrews,
Fifeshire.
123. Francis M. Wade, b. ; murdered by Nana Sahib
at Cawnpore, India, Jan. 11, 1857 ; officer in
British Army.
Fitzjohn Wade was an officer in the British Army sta-
tioned in India, the Isle of Man and Heligoland. Little is
known of him.
105. William Thomas Wade (son of George), born at
Dunmow, Essex, November 9, 1796.
Married : — Jane Ler Tucker, at Christ Church, St.
Pancras. London, December 20, 1855.
Issue : —
124. Frances Barbara Wade.
125. William de Vina Wade, b. May 27. 1859, at Dunmow.
126. Armigel Walter Wade.
William Thomas Wade was a celebrated attorney, prac-
tising and residing at Dunmow, Essex. He died there
October 2, 1871. His widow was living there in 1897.
112. George de Vins Wade (son of George), born 1805;
resided at Baldock, in the County of Hertford.
Married : — Ann Hicks of Baldock.
Issue : —
127. George Herbert Wade of Chislehurst, Kent ; sur-
geon.
128. Ann Wade.
129. Frances Wade, d. at Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 16, 1886.
130. William Wade.
131. Louisa Wade, m. Leonard Grant, April 22, 1884.
132. Claude Wade.
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130 The Wade Genealogy.
George de Vins Wade died . His wife died December
18, 1895, aged 72; buried at Chislehurst, Kent.
113. Charles James Wade (son of George), born at Dun-
mow, January 19, 1807.
Married : — Maria Cluet Rawes, at Shaftesbury, May
15, 1838.
Issue : —
133. Margaret Frances de Vins Wade, b. Feb. 23, 1839;
m. Jan. 21, 1862, H. M. Pry or (60th Eifles).
134. George Cholwich Wade, b. April 11, 1840.
135. Armigel Wade, b. March 2. 1843.
136. Alice Maria Wade, b. Dec. 9 1845; m. Oct. 17, 1866,
J. E. L^lry ; m. (2) Apr. 27. 1878, Thomas Algernon
Ehvell.
137. Florence Wade, b. Nov. 28, 1849: m. Aug. 1, 1877,
J. W. Marshall (60th Rifles).
138. Charles Aubrey Wade, b. Mar. 29, 1851.
139. Francis William Wade, b. April 22, 1854.
140. Eleanor Maud Wade, b. Jan. 17, 1856; unm.
141. Emma Caroline Wade, b. Sept. 24, 1858 ; mar. R. R.
Elwell, at Lower Gravenhurst, June 27, 1877.
142. Henrietta Nesta Wade, b. Nov. 11, 1861; m. Herbert
Pryor ; m. (2) E. C. Dawson, Feb. 22, 1896.
The Reverend Charles James Wade, graduated B. A.
from Jesus College, Cambridge. He was ordained Deacon
by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, April 22, 1832, and priest
by the same bishop, April 7, 1833. He held the curacies
of Wyke Champflower in the County of Somerset, Brush-
ford, near Dulverton, in the same county, Shaftesbury in
Dorsetshire and the vicarage of Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire,
for many years. He died July, 1896, leaving a widow to
survive him. In addition to the above, his wife bore
seven other children who died in infancy.
116. Francis Montresor Wade (son of George), born
1810.
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue : —
143. .
• Francis Montresor Wade was an officer in the 44th Regi-
ment, and died January 12, 1841, in the disastrous retreat
from Cabul, Afghanistan. It was an ideal soldier's death.
The 'Wade Horn, in the possession of William de A^ius Wade, Esq.,
Dunmow, Essex, En^rland.
Famous English Wades. 131
guarding (alas I in vain) the women, children and unarmed
camp-followers, even if America's only political colonel,
W. J. Bryan, would term it " walking about in idleness."
125. William dc Vins Wade (son of William Thomas),
born at Dunmow, May 27, 1859.
Married: — Alice Mary Woodman, at Pontesbury,
Salop, April 19, 1893. (She was born November
29, 1867).
Issue : —
144. .
William de Vins Wade is a Solicitor of the Supreme
Court of Judicature in England, living at Dunmow, Essex,
in 1900. He has recently restored the tomb of Sir William
Waad, and possesses the cttrious Wade Horn, of which an
illustration appears in this part. Of this horn he is only
able to say that it has been handed down as an heirloom
for several generations, but for how many he is not
informed, that it bears the inscriptions " Wada, 8th centu-
ry, Waad, i6th century, Wade;" and that no zoologist has
examined it to determine if it be rhinosceros horn. To
the curious, the association of family fortunes with horns
will recall the Horn of Uhland, The Luck of Edenhall, and ,
the Oldenburg Horn (a replica of which last given by a
generous merchant prince of New York, Edward Kemp,
forms one of the most valued trophies of the 7th Regiment
of National Guard of the State of New York). All these
have an elfin donor as an origin, and the Wade Horn a
Scandinavian Saga as sponsor.
126. Armigel Walter Wade (son of William Thomas)
born .
Married : —
Issue :—
145. .
Emigrated to the State of Iowa, where he is a farmer.
132 The Wade Genealogy.
134. George Cholwich Wade (son of Charles James),
born April 11, 1840.
Married : — Anna Margaret Mary (daughter of Hora-
tio Warren) at Langport, Somerset, June 8, 187 1.
Issue : —
146. Barbara Mary Gwendoline "Wade, b. at Shefford,
Bedford, June 3, 1872.
147. A son, b. at Barmouth, South Wales, Nov. 7, 1873.
148. A son, b. Nov., 1879.
Mrs. George C. Wade died at Burnham, Somerset,
November 25, 1879.
135. Armigel Wade (son of Charles James), born March 2,
1843.
Married : — Marion Bleaymire, at Clifton, Bedford-
shire, April 7, 1869.
Issue : —
149. Armigel Bleaymire Wade, b. Feb. 28, 1870; res.
60 Cromwell Road, Botanic Gardens, Belfast, Ire-
land.
150. George Aubrey Wade, b. May 3, 1871; res. Tallan-
gate, Victoria, Australia.
151. Jean de Vina Wade, b. May 18, 1872; d. Aug. 5, 1889;
bur. at Hitchin, Hertfordshire.
152. Walter Sterhng Wade, b Oct. 8, 1873.
153. Marion Ethel Wade, b. Dec. 21, 1874.
154. Reginald Colquhoun Wade, b. Dec. 10, 1876 : d. July
18, 1880 ; bur. at Hitchin.
155. Helen Kathleen Wade, b. May 23, 1878.
Armigel Wade resides at Julians road, Stevenage, Hert-
fordshire, England, and is a Solicitor of the Supreme
Court.
138. Charles Aubrey Wade (son of Charles James), born
at Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, March 29, 1851.
Married: — Sarah Crouch at Ridgmount, Bedfordshire,
January i, 1878.
Issue : —
156. Charles James Aubrey Wade.
157. Armigel de Vins Wade.
158. Alexander Gawthrop Wade.
159. Aiidrey Daisy Wade.
160. Cecil Henry Wade.
161. Harold Walter Wade.
162. Hugh Robert Wade.
Arms and Crest of Wade of Kinge Cross, Yorkshire, England.
Famous English Wades. 133
Charles Aubrey Wade resides at Henfield, in the County
of Sussex, and is a Solicitor of the vSupreme Court of
Judicature in England.
WADE OF KINGECROSSE, YORKSHIRE.
That another and notable family of Wades was early
settled in Yorkshire appears from the Visitation of that
county made by Sir William Dugdale in 1665. (See
Surtees Society^ Vol. XXXVI, p. 32, The Genealogist, Vol.
XIII, pp. 1 1 2-1 It;, and Thoresby's History of Leeds, 2nd
Edition, 1816, p. 153).
Thoresby says, under New Grange: " The pleasant seat
of Benjamin Wade, Esquire, Justice of the Peace for the
West Riding. The house was built by a predecessor of
both his names in 1626, who placed this inscription on
the front: 'Except the Lord build the house they labour
in vain that build it. It is the Lord that keeps thee going
out and in. B. W. 1626.' Over the north door, where
the poor received their alms, is engraven:
' ' If thou shalt find a house built to thy mind, without thy cost,
Serve thou the more God and the poor. My labour is not lost."
This family of New Grange was so remakably zealous
in the service of King Charles I, that they sold ^500 per
annum to serve those occasions. In 1752, Walter Wade,
Esquire, rebuilt the house."
Thoresby commences his pedigree of Wade with one John
Wade of Coventry as the common ancestor, but adduces no
authority for his statement. For arms he assigns to these
Wades: Azure, within a bordure, argent, upon a bend,
or, two gillyflowers proper. On turning to the Herald's
Visitation, as amplified by Mr. J. W. Clay, F. S. A., in The
Genealogist, we find the following arms and pedigree :
Skyrack Wapentake. Leeds, 4 Apr., t666.
WADE OF KINGECROSSE.
Arms : on a bend two gyllyfiowers proper, a
bordure engraved
Crest: — A griffin's head erased in the beak a gylly-
flower proper.
No proof made of these arms.
134 The Wade Genealogy.
200. Robert Wade of King Crosse, Halifax.
Married :
Issue : —
201. Robert Wade of Field House, Sowerby, Yorks; bur.
at Halifax, Dec. 5, 1594. Inquisition post mortem,
dated April 28 (37 Elizabeth), (1595).
202. Richard Wade of Sowerby : yeoman.
203. Anthony Wade.
204. Henry Wade.
205. Margaret Wade, m. (1) Edward Ferrer: m. (2) John
Hanson.
202. Richard Wade (son of Robert) of Sowerby, York-
shire, yeoman.
Married : — Agnes Ferrer (?) at Halifax, June x8, 1555.
Issue : —
206. Samuel Wade of Quickstavers, b. 1562.
Richard Wade died before May 6, 15S7, when an inqui-
sition post mortem was held as to his estates.
204. Henrv Wade (son of Robert) of King Crosse, near
Halifax.
Married: — Elizabeth Ramsden (buried at Halifax,
July 1 1, 1600);
Issue : —
207. Anthony Wade of King- Crosse.
208. William Wade of Ballgrene, in Sowerby, near Hali-
fax.
209. Judith Wade, m. Robert Dene of Exley, Yorks.
210. Mary Wade, m. Edward Longbotham of Longbotham,
Yorks.
Henry Wade was buried at Halifax, July 28, 1605. His
will, dated May 4, 1604, was proved at York, January 28,
1605, and mentions his daughters Judith and Mary.
206. vSamuel Wade (son of Richard), born 1562, of Quick-
stavers; buried at Halifax, April r6, 1596. His will
is dated April 13, i596. He probably died with-
out issue.
Famous English Wades. 135
207. Anthony Wade (son of Henry) of King Crosse.
Married: — Judith (daughter of Tho. Foxcrofte) of
New Grange, at Leeds, November 3, 1590.
Issue : —
211. Benjamin Wade, b. 1593.
312. "William Wade, bapt. at Halifax, March 15, 1594-5.
313. Elizabeth Wade, m. Cotton Hojne of Wakefield at
HaUfax, March 7, 1613-4.
314. Sarah Wade, bapt. at Halifax, July 4, 1596 ; in. John
Hargreves of Leeds.
215. Judith Wade, bapt. at Halifax, April 30, 1598: m. (1)
Rev. Henry Power; m. (2) Joseph Stocke.
216. Anthony Wade, bapt. at Halifax, Aug. 26, 1599.
317. Prescilla Wade, bapt. at Hahfax, May 10, 1601; m.
Will Favour, citizen of London.
318. Susan Wade, bapt. at HaHfax, Sept. 9, 1602; m. Dr.
Jennison of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
. 219. John Wade, bapt. at Halifax, Feb. 6, 1603-4.
220. Robert Wade, bapt. at Halifax, July 7; bur. there
July 14, 1605.
331. Richard Wade, bapt. at Hahfax, March 35, 1607.
Anthony Wade purchased the house at New Grange,
of Isaac Foxcroft. He was buried at Halifax, June 25,
1616. His will, dated May 24, was proved at York,
December 28, 1616. In it he mentions, among others, his
sons William, Anthony and Richard.
208. William Waue (son of Henry) of Ballgrene, Sowerby,
near Halifax.
Married : — Mary (daughter of — — ).
Issue : —
223. Robert Wade; will proved 38 Aug., 1617, dated April
3, 1616.
323. Benry Wade.
324. Judith Wade.
235. Sarah Wade.
336. Mary Wade.
327. Anne Wade.
William Wade's will is dated April 27, 1593, and was
proved at York, June 28, 1594. In it (amongst others),
he mentions his sons and daughters, Henry, Judith, Sarah,
Mary and Anne.
211. Benjamin Wade (son of Anthony) of New Grange,
born 1592.
136 The Wade Genealogy.
Married : — Edith (daughter of John Shaw) of Leeds,
baptized at Leeds, November 30, 1595.
Issue : —
None.
Benjamin Wade was a merchant and Mayor of Leeds in
1632 and 1633. He left ^^200 by his will to purchase a
rent charge of ^10 for the minister of Headingley Chapel,
and died without issue, February 5, 1671, aged 81 years,
and is buried at Headingley. His wife was buried there
January 2, 1652 {^Adel Register^. Benjamin built the house
at New Grange referred to in the extract Irom Thoresby.
219. John Wade (son of Anthony), baptized at Halifax,
February 6, 1603-4.
Married : — Mary (daughter of Anthony Waterhouse)
of Woodhouse, Yorkshire (baptized at Halifax;
married there, April 6, 1630).
Issue : —
228. Benjamin Wade, d. unm.
229. Anthony Wade, b. 1636.
230. John Wade (d. , says Thoresby, without issue) .
231. Judith Wade, bapt. at Halifax, Mar. 7, 1632-3; d.
unm.
232. John Wade. . •
John Wade died about 1645.
228. Benjamin Wade (son of John) of Leeds and Burley.
Married: — Dora (sister of William Jackson) of Dublin,
at York Minster, March 28, 1703.
Issue : —
233. Mary Wade.
234. Anne Wade.
Benjamin Wade was buried at Headingley, December 5,
1753. His widow Dorothy was buried there April 12,
1758-
229. Anthony Wade (son of John), born about 1636.
Married: — Mary (daughter of John Moore) of Green-
head, Lancashire.
y
Edward Wade, born at Londonderry, Ireland, 1810.
Famous English Wades. 137
Issue: —
235. Benjamin Wade, b. 1665.
Anthony Wade was Mayor of Leeds in 1676. He died
December /4, 1683, aged 49, and was buried at Head-
ingley.
232. John Wade (son of John).
Married : — Hannah (daughter of John Milner).
Issue : —
236. Benjamin Wade of Leeds and Burley (possibly the
ancestor of the New Jersey Wades, as no further
trace is found of him in England) .
235. Benjamin Wade (son of Anthony), born 1665.
Married: — Ann (eldest daughter of Walter Calverley
Esq.) of Calverley (born 13, baptized 27 December,
1663; married April 7, 1684; buried May 30, 1705;
all at Calverley.)
Issue : —
237. Calverley Wade, b. Feb. 3, 1684; d. 1703.
238. Benjamin Wade, b. May 22, 1686 ; d. Jiine 30, 1719.
239. Thompson Wade, b. May 9, 1687 ; a captain in the
army ; d. at Brussels, Nov. 9, 1709.
240. Henry Wade, bapt. Aug. 1, 1689.
241. Mary Wade, b. Sept. 23, 1690; m. Morehouse.
242. Anne Wade, b. June 11, 1693 ; m. Thomas Grosvenor.
243. Frances Wade, b. Nov. 15, 1694 ; m. Croft Preston,
(Mayor of Leeds, 1715, eldest son of John Preston
of Leeds; merchant; mayor, 1692), and had issue.
Wade Preston.
244. Walter Wade, b. Aug. 19, 1696.
Benjamin Wade lived at New Grange, and was a Justice
of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was
buried at Headingley, May 19, 1716.
244. Walter Wade (son of Benjamin) of New Grange,
Esquire, born August 19, 1696.
Married: — Beatrix (daughter of Benj. Killingbeck) of
Allerton Grange.
138 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue :--
345. Benjamiu Wade, d. an infant.
246. Walter Wade, bapt. at Headingley, Nov. 1, 1732.
Walter Wade was Mayor of Leeds in 1757. He was
fined for refusing to serve as ma5'or in 1759.
246. Walter Wade (son of Walter) of New Grange,
Esquire, baptized at Headingley, November i,
1722.
Married: — Anne (daughter of Robert Allanson,
Esquire) of Royd, Halifax. (She died January 7,
1809).
Issue : —
247. Walter Wade, bur. at Headingley, Dec. 8. 1753 ; d.
young.
248. Eobert Wade, bur. at Headingley, Dec. 23, 1753 ; d.
young.
249. Benjamiu Wade, bapt. April 15. 1759 ; bur. Oct. T,
1801.
250. Ann Wade, bapt. at Headingley, Feb. 18, 1756 ; m.
Thos. Lloyd, Lieut. Colonel Leeds Militia Volun-
teers. Issue : George and Ann Lloyd.
251. William Wade, bapt. at Headingley, Dec. 9, 1762.
252. Thompson Wade, bapt. at Headingley. June 7, 1765 ;
bur. there Feb. 2. 1828.
Walter Wade was buried at Headingley, December 16,
177 1. His widow (?) of Wellwood, Yorkshire, was buried
there January 14, 1809.
249. Benjamin Wade (son of Walter) of New Grange.
Esquire, born April 15, 1759.
Married: — Arabella (daughter of Captain William
Martin, R. N.).
Issue : —
253. Harriot Wade, bapt. at Headingley. March 22, 1784:
d. young.
254. Ehzabeth Wade, bapt. at Headinglay, March 30, 1785 ;
d. young.
255. Arabella Wade, bapt. at Headingley, Feb. 24, 1786 ;
d. young.
256. Frances Wade, bapt. at Headingley. Nov. 22, 1787:
m. Oct. 7, 1817, at St. George's, Hanover Square,
London, to Captain John Bastard, R. N. , M. P. for
Dartmouth ; he d. 1835.
Famous English Wades. 139
357. Mary Anne Wade, bapt. at Headingley, May 14, 1789 :
. m. Oct., 1828, at St. George's, Hanover Square,
Loudon, to Major John Neave Wells, R. E. (son of
Admiral Wells).
Benjamin Wade was buried at Headingley, April 30, 1792.
251. William Wade (son of Walter).
Married : — Henrietta (daughter of Sir John Smith,
Bt.) of Newland Park.
Issue .- -?
258.
259. Nathaniel Wade (son of ) of Burley, farmer.
Married: — Elizabeth (buried at Headingley, Jan-
uary. 29, 1798).
Issue : —
260. Benjamin Wade, bapt. at Headingley, June 23, 1763,
261. Priscilla Wade, bapt. at Headingley, Feb. 14, 1765.
• 262. Dorothy Wade, bapt. at Headingley, May 8, 1766 ;
bur. there, Nov. 23, 1781.
263. Elizabeth Wade, bur. at Headingley, Aug. 24, 1780.
Nathaniel Wade was buried at Headingley, October 6,
1800.
Around Leeds the Wades were very numerous. Wade
Browne, Esquire, was twice Mayor of Leeds, serving until
1804. By his will, in 1821, he founded .several charities at
Chapel Allerton. Parson's History of Leeds, 2 Vols. (1834),
p. 97, supplies an early instance of the name in stating
that Thomas AVade, by his will dated in 1530, left a, portion
of his estate for the repair of roads around Leeds. The
parish of Harewood, eight miles north of Leeds, also has a
charity fund called Wade's charity.
THE WADES OF THE WEST COUNTRY.
Of high antiquity indeed was the Wade Family of Corn-
wall and Devonshire, antedating in this beauteous Beer-
sheba of England, all records of the Northumbrian and
Yorkshire houses. Holding as a family tradition a lineal
descent from the Hebrew patriarch Benjamin (!), the.
140 The Wade Genealogy.
family is traceable in the earliest records of the County of
Cornwall, settling there shortly after its conquest by King
Egbert, in the early part of the ninth century. That the
Wades were men of note and prominence in the west
country, is evident from the fact that Wadelus, a Saxon,
owned Wadefaste, in the parish of Whitstone, Cornwall, at
the time of Edward the Confessor. The place is now
called Wadfast. Dunkin's Cornish Brasses informs us that
Wadebridge in Cornwall, was anciently called Wade's
Bridge, the reason being supplied by William of Worces-
ter, in his Itinerary (written about A. D. 1350), in the
statement that Wadebridge, a bridge of seventeen arches
(over the river Camel), was situated /?<?«/' to the matior house of
Wade.
It seems that the elder branch of this family was settled
at Week St. Mary, Jacobstowe and Warbstowe, in North
Cornwall, for many centuries and from Saxon times until
its sole representative, John Wade, removed to Redruth,
in the west of the same county.
Sir John Maclean, in his History of the Deanery of Trigg
Mitior, Cornwall (Vol. Ill, p. 267), makes the following
reference to the Wades : —
"The family of Wade has held a reputable position in
this district from a remote antiquity. William Wade was
amerced to the subsidy in the parish of St. Advent in 1327.
John Wade and Joanna, his wife, suffered a fine in certain
lands in Camelford and Tregewe, in 1439. Henry Wade,
as a kinsman and heir of John Trefrew, held lands of the
manor of Helston in Trigg. Mary, relict of Henry Wade,
married John Billing of Hengar, who in 1539, held in her
right, lands of the same manor in Michaelstowe. John
Wade was a trustee of lands of William Carmynowe of
St. Kew. in 1523, and was probably the same man who
was Vicar of Michaelstowe in 1536, and was buried there
in 1562. Henry Wade, in 1524, was amerced to the sub-
sidy in the parish of Michaelstowe, and one of the same
name in St. Teath. John Wadde was in Tintagel, as was
also one of the same name in 1543. Walter Wade held a
Claude Fitzroy Wade, Esquire. Barrister at law. Son of Sir Claude
Martine Wade, K. C. B. (Irish family.)
Famous English Wades. 141
tenement of the manor of Colquitte in 1575. Wade is one
of the earliest names in St. Kew parish registers, and also
at Tintagel. John Wade was buried at Tintagel, 1562.
Anthony Wade was buried at Tintagel in 1667. Pentecost
Wade was a juror of the Assession Court of the manor of
Tintagel in 1617, at which time he held in right of his wife
Jane, after the death of her former husband, John Symons,
of that manor, part of Trewis. John Wade, born 1614, had
two sons, Ambrose (burgess of Camelford, i66t. Mayor
1684, his wife Margaret was buried at Lanteglos in 1680),
and William, who had two sons, John and William. The
issue of this John became extinct in the male line in his
son, William (Mayor of Bodmin in 1756)."
In Lanteglos churchyard, Cornwall, is a stone inscribed
in double lines, formerly an altar tom.b in the churchyard.
The inscription reads : Here lyeth ye body of Ambrose
Wade, who died the X day of March in the yere of our Lord
anno 1669. Here, lyeth ye body of Margaret Wade, ye wife
of Ambrose Wade, who died the 8th of November in the
year of our Lord God anno 1680.
By Faith so ferm, by Hope so bold
By Love so true, Wee Christ be-hold.
In St. Advent churchyard, a broken slab, removed from
the church, is circumscribed in capital letters: " Here
lieth the body of Anthony Wade, deceased, which was
buried the twentieth day of May, anno Domini 1667."
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Asjregards the Week St. Mary branch of the Cornish
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275. William Wade
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276. William Wade
277. William Wade
278. William Wade
279. John Wade
280. William Wade
281. Wilham Wade
of Redruth.
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Married : — Mary Brown at Redruth.
Jssue : —
282. William Wade of Redruth and Plymouth, b. 1819.
283. Wade.
William Wade died at Redruth, aged 84; his wife died
there, aged 80.
144 The Wade Genealogy.
282. William Wade, born at Redruth, March 29, 1819.
Married: — Mary Anne Annear, at St. Austell,
August, 1848, (She died July 20, 1894).
Issue : —
284. Clara Mary Wade, b. July 1849 ; m. 1S76, Staff Sur-
geon Septimus Evans, K. N., who perished in the
blowing up of H. M. S. Doterel, April, 1891.
285. Elizabeth Wade, b. 1852; m. 1870, William John
Finch of Bristol.
286. William Cecil Wade, b. at Eedruth, Feb. 13, 1854.
William Wade died at Teignmouth, Devon, May 29,
1884. He was proprietor and master of Redruth Grammar
School from 1842 to 1862, and later a whole coal merchant
and factor at Plymouth. He was well known in Cornwall
as a Nonconformist, local preacher, and lecturer; was
elected Vice-President of the Plymouth Reform League,
and was present as a delegate at the Reform Demonstra-
tion in Hyde Park, in 1867, "when Edmond Beales pulled
the railings down." He is noted as the discoverer of a
novel means for curing fevers by an external cooling lini-
ment, which is locally well-known.
283. Wade.
Married : .
Issue : —
287. Charles Henry Wade of Barrow, Wade, Guthrie &
Co., of Manchester, New York, Chicago, etc.,
accountants.
286. William Cecil Wade, born at Redruth, February 13,
1854.
Married: — Eliza Lenten Hooton, at Plymouth,
December 11, 1876.
Issue : —
288. Editha Annie Wade, b. 1877; d. 1878.
289. Millicent Wade. b. 1878.
290. Cicily Muriel Wade, b. 1880 ; d. 1882.
291. Claude Cecil Wade, b. 1882.
292. Arthur Cecil Wade, b. 1887.
293. Mabel Violet Wade, b. 1883,
294. Muriel Ida Wade, . \ +,„• „ v .qq.
295. Sylvia Gertrude Wade,i *^^°^' ^- ^^^^'
Colonel Sir Claude Martine Wade, K. C. B. The mau who first
forced the Khyber Pass. (Irish family )
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Famous English Wades. 145
William Cecil Wade is a member of the Council of the
Port of Plymouth Chamber of Commerce; is one of the
Secretaries of the Devon and Cornwall Natural History
Society; is a noted collector of swords, armor and book-
plates, and is the author of The Symbolisms of Heraldry,
Some Extinct Cornish Families, and several other works of
standard value.
287. Charles Henry Wade.
Married : —
Issue : —
296. Charles Henry Wade, surgeon, Torquay, Eng.
297. James D'Ewes Wade, Manchester.
Charles Henry Wade is a chartered accountant, a mem-
ber of the international firm of Barrow, Wade, Guthrie &
Co. of Manchester, New York, Chicago, etc.
WADE OF FII.TON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
To the researches of David Treharne Newton-Wade of
Newport, Monmouthshire, Solicitor of the Supreme Court
of Judicature in England, the compiler is indebted for this
extended pedigree of an ancient and honorable West
Country branch of the family. To this branch belonged
an early Mayor of Bristol, an officer and confidant of stern
Oliver Cromwell, and Colonel Nathaniel Wade, the ill-fated
Monmouth's companion in arms at Sedgmoor. It com-
prises men who saw the "circuit of the Shambles," and
heard the Butcher Jeffreys fulminate against the West
Country's " Tylees, Roes and Wades" (Roberts' Z/fe of
the Duke of Monmouth). Quoting Mr. Newton-Wade, the
account runs as follows :
The Wade Family of Filton, in the County of Glouces-
ter, is of considerable antiquity. It will be seen from the
following pedigree that descent is traced from Thomas
Wade of Filton. living in 1560. The arms borne by the
family are, azure on a saltire, between 4 fleur de lis, or, 5
escallops of the field. The date of the grant of these arms
cannot be traced, but they have always been borne by the
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Wade Family of Filton as appears from the seals on several
ancient deeds relating to the Manor of Blaisdon, in the
County of Gloucester, at one time belonging to the family,
and by monuments in the churches of Frampton-on-Severn
and Henbury, in the County of Gloucester, recording the
deaths of members of the family.
The following confirmation of such arms and grant of
a crest, appears in the Harleian MS., 1470, folios 49-161,
in the British Museum, and also in the College of Arms in
London, viz :
"To all Nobles and Gentles to whom these presents shall
come: William Camden, Esquire, alias Clarencieux, King
of Armes of the South East and West parts of this Realme
of England from the River of Trent Southwards sendeth
this due commendation and greeting : Know ye Whereas
auntiently from the beginning it hath byn a custome in
all cuntryes and common wealtheswell gouverned that the
bearying of certaine markes in shields commonly called
Armes have byn and are the liuely signes and demonstra-
tions either of proess and valour atcheived in the feild by
martiall men in tymes of Warre or ells the rewardes of
virtue for the good lyfe and conwersation of others in
tymes of Peace. Amonge the vv'hich number for that I find
William Vv'ade, the sonne of William Wade, the son of
Robert of Bildeston in the County of Suffolk, Gent., who
beareth Azure (on ye) Saltour or, five escallopes of the
first between fower ffiower de luces of the second and
wanting to his said Coate or Armes a convenient Creast or
Cogenzance fytt to be bourne as divers auntient coats doe,
hath requested me the said Clarencieux by virtue of my
office to appoint him such a one as he may lawfully beare
without Vi^rong doing or preiudice to others. The whole
according to his iust request I have accomplished and
graunted viz : on a wreath of his cullors a Talbott argent
the eares and flacks of hayres redd, about his neck a collor
and Case, gould as more plainly doth it appear in the
margent. All which Armes and Creaste I the said Clar-
encieux doe by theis presents ratifie and confirme unto the
said William Wade and to his posterity for ever, and that
it shall be lawful for him and them to use beare and shew
forth the same in signett, sheilde, Ensigne, Coate Armor
or otherwise at his and their free libertye and pleasure
without lett or molestation. In Witness whereof I the
Arms and Crest of Wade of Billesden, Suffolk and of Nailsea Court,
Filton and Frampton-on-Severn, England.
Famous English Wades. 147
said King of Armes have here unto sett my hande and
seale of oflfice the Eight day of November 1604 and in the
second yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord James
by the Grace of God King of England, ffrance and Ireland
Defender of the faithe &c., and of Scotland the Eighte
and thirtith.
WILLIAM CAMDEN,
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Whether the Wades of Filton were a branch of the
family of Wades of Bilston, Suffolk, has not been ascertained,
but at present it is surmised that the Thomas Wade, the
fourth son of Robert Wade of Bilston above mentioned, is
one and the same person as Thomas Wade, the ancestor of
the Wades of Filton mentioned in the following pedigree,
and for the foil-owing reason, viz: — In an Indenture of
Lease & Release dated 26 August 1680 and made between
John Wade late of the Wyke in the parish of Arlingham
and then of the City of Gloucester Esq. of the ist part
William Rowles of The Cockshut and Thomas Pyeke of
Little Dean of the 2nd part, Thomas Wade of the City of
Gloucester son of said John Wade of the 3rd part, Anna
Dunch of Radcott in Oxfordshire, Spinster, one of the
daughters of John Dunch late of Pusey in Berkshire
Esquire deceased of fourth part, and Oliver Cromwell of
Hursley in the county of Southampton Esquire and
Humphrey Gunter of Radcot aforesaid Gentleman of the ^th part ;
certain lands in Gloucestershire were settled upon the said
Thomas Wade and Anne Dunch, the said Oliver Cromwell
and Humphrey Gunter being Trustees. It is supposed that
this Humphrey Gunter was a descendant of the Sir William
Gunter who married Mary Wade of Bilston, mentioned in
the above pedigree.
300. Thomas Wade of Filton and Bristol, gentleman (living
in 1560 and called " Thomas Wade ye elder ").
Married : — Margaret (one of the daughters of
Hollister) of Almondsbury. She purchased in A. D.
1563-4 (jointly with John Hollister and Thomas
Harper), a fourth part of the Manor of Broken-
borough, in the County of Gloucester.
Issue : —
301. John Wade.
. 303. Thomas Wade, "the younger."
Thomas Wade died about 6 Elizabeth (/. e. 1563-4).
150 The Wade Genealogy.
301. John Wade of Filton and Bristol, gentleman, Mayor
of Bristol in 1576.
Married : (daughter of — • ).
Issue : —
303. Thomas Wade.
304. William Wade.
John Wade died about 1576, or shortly thereafter. He
was Mayor of Bristol in 1576. Very little is known of this
man. He appears to have been one of the Overseers of the
will of Walter West of the Parish of St. Thomas in Bristol
(proved 6th of June, 1567), and Giles Hobbs, a vintner of
Bristol, in his will (proved 24 November, 1576), gives Mr.
John Wade a pecuniary legacy ' ' to make merry amongst the
parishoners of the Parish of St. Mary Porte." The follow-
ing also appears in the Bristol Corporation Records, viz. :
" For as much as the aforesaid Mayor (Wade) not being
an austere man, did incline to LoUardism, which gave
great offence and to let his influence, the Chamber revived
an 'Act' ' that no person shall be Mayor more than once'
having more regard for their own private fancies and inter-
est than for that only they owe to the public, the which I
have noted oft' times unbeknowing the cause thereof."
302. Thomas Wade, "the younger," of Filton, gentleman,
formed one of the homage of the Court Baron of
the Manor of Horfield, County Gloucester, in 1560.
Married : (daughter of -).
Issue : —
305. Thomas Wade.
306. John Wade.
307. William Wade.
The date of Thomas Wade's death has not been ascer-
tained.
303. Thomas Wade of Filton and Plenbury, in the County
of Gloucester, gentleman.
Married : — Margaret (daughter of ).
Famous English Wades. ' 151
Issue :■
308. John Wade.
309. William Wade.
310. Eowland Wade.
311. Anne Wade, m Taylor.
3ia. Mary Wade.
Thomas Wade's will is dated 12 June, 1610; proved
same year at Bristol. In it he mentions his wife Margaret.
304. William Wade of Stoke Gifford, gentleman.
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue : —
313. Sarah Wade, who m. Walter Kemeys, second son of
Rog-er Kemeys of Bedminster and de Wyke. (See
Visitation of Gloucestershire in 1623).
William Wade's will was proved at Bristol, 1610. He
was buried at Almondsbury.
305. Thomas Wade of Filton, called "the elder" in 1629.
Married : — Margery (buried at Filton, May
13, 1655).
Issue : —
314. Thomas Wade.
315. Elizabeth Wade.
316 Margaret Wade.
317. Johanne Wade.
318. Agnes Wade.
Thomas Wade's will is dated November r, 1629. It men-
tions his wife Margery and his brother John.
306. John Wade of Almondsbury.
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue : —
319. William Wade.
320. Anne Wade.
321. Grace Wade.
322. Mary Wade.
323. Fanny Wade.
324. Elizabeth Wade.
325. Katherine Wade.
John Wade's will was proved at Bristol, 1637. In it he
mentions all his children as above.
152 The Wade Genealogy.
307. William Wade of Almondsbury.
Married : (daughter of — ).
Issue : — ?
336. .
308. John Wade of Filton and Almondsbury, County of
Gloucester, gentleman.
Married: — Margaret (buried at Filton, Novem-
ber 24, 1664).
Issue : —
327. John Wade.
328. Thomas Wade.
329. Nicholas Wade.
330. Mary Wade, m. Greet. •
331. William Wade.
The will of John Wade is dated November 25, 1664 (the
day after his wife's burial). It was proved at Bristol in
1664. He was a tenant on the court rolls of the Manor of
Horfield in the years 1652-3.
309. William AVade of Filton and Henbury, County of
Gloucester.
Married: — Agnes Cromwell at Henbury Church,
County of Gloucester, June 9, 1600.
Issue : — ?
310. Rowland Wade.
Married :
Issue : — ?
332.
314. Thomas Wade of Filton.
Married: — Sarah (buried at Filton, February
14, 1691).
Issue : —
333. Thomas Wade.
334. Sarah Wade, m. John Gunter.
335. Hester Wade.
336. Mary Wade, m. David Lie.
337. Martha Wade.
338. Abigail Wade, m. Thomas White.
United States Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade. The man who
stopped the rout at Bull Bun, and did more than many for the Flag.
His father served at Bunker Hill. (Massachusetts family.)
Famous English Waues. . 153
Thomas Wade was admitted on the court rolls of the
Manor of Horfield, June 11, 1655. His will is dated April
14, 1679; proved at Bristol. April 27, 1680.
327. John Wade, sometime of Filton, afterwards of Little-
dean, in the County of Gloucester, and subse-
quently of the Wick House, Arlingham, in the
County of Gloucester, Esquire.
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Married: — Anne (daughter of ■ Lane), died
March 19, 1678, and buried at St. Stephen's
Church, Bristol.
Issue : —
339. John Wade of Filton and Bristol.
340. Thomas Wade of Frampton-on-Severn.
341. Nathaniel Wade (Colonel) of Bristol.
342. William Wade of Bristol.
John Wade was a Major in Cromwell's Army. He is the
man mentioned in Thurlow's State Papers and Washburn's
Bibliotheca Gloucestrcnsis as the Deputy Governor who
defended Gloucester against the Royalist Army in 1651,
and was highly commended by Cromwell for the service.
John Chaloner, the regicide, in his Short Treatise on the
Isle of Man (1653), p. 16, states that Major Wade was then
Governor of the Isle of Man. He died between August,
1680, and March, 1681.
The following are some few of the letters in the Public
Record Office written by and to Major John Wade:
Sir:—
I had a meeting yesterday with Captain Nicholas con-
cerninge the raisinge of forces for the defence of our coun-
ty to which I answered him that there is no doubt if
authority be given for that purpose and provision made
for accommodation force will be speedily raised and
therefore if you think it will be with anie advantage to
154 The Wade Genealogy.
the publick noe doubt by God's assistance of a sufficient
number shall be forthwith raised for the safekeeping of
Gloucester whereby the horse heare may be spared for
service abroad.
I came to Gloucester this day being sent for by the
Mayor and Aldermen of the City and am putting the well
effected of the city in a position of defence which at pres-
ent is foure hundred men.
I doe think of going into the forest again to put things
in the best condition possible.
What you conceive me fitt or capable to do in order to
the raisinge of men let me have command and authority
and there shall be noe want in me. I conceive it were not
amiss if there were a forbearance of raisinge of those for
the present money being a precious thing with you, and
raise iron a \'endible commodity. Your forge is on work.
Thus deservinge your answer to what you shall think fitt
and best.
Your faithful servant,
JOHN WADE.
To the Right Hon'ble John
DisBRowE these be presented.
Gloucester,
March 20th, 1654.
Sir:—
I received a letter for Thomas Shewell of Bristol to pay
me ;;^i,ooo towards carrying on castings in Forest Dean
but it would save trouble if I might receive it from General
Receiver of Gloucester. I carry on the business with great
honesty and frugality. 1 desire order for disposal of 50
tons of shot and directions whether I am to cast Ordnance
for 2 ghips building at Bristol by Mr. Hayley or whether
he will prevail to get your great guns at Bristol as he has
prevailed with you to buy his timber, a bill here and there,
to the amazement of rational men while there are plenty in
the Forest decaying.
Two days after I got the order to preserve Whitemeads
Park, some gallants came down to dispose of it but I
cooled their courage by producing the order. The spoil
carried on in the Forest makes my blood boil.
Your faithfull Servant,
JOHN WADE.
To Col. John Ci-arke,
Admiralty Commissioner
at Whitehall.
Famous English Wades. 155
Bristol,
Deer. 29th, 1655.
May it please your Highness : —
According to the best of my skill I have
endeavoured to put the orders and instructions of your
Highness and Counsel into execution and I have advised
about' a Sheriff of Gloucester and am ascertained that either
Thomas Estcourt or Silvanus Wood Esq'r are fit for it.
I must crave the liberty to acquaint your Highness that
I understodd that Lieutenant Col Briscoe was to be made
Colonel and Major Wade Lieutenant Colonel but instead of that I
hear that Major Wade is like to be put out of the Government of the
Isle of Man but I hope this is not so. I beg your Highness that
nothing may be done to the prejudice of poor Wade who is d faithful
person and exceeding useful to your Highness and the Commonwealth
in the County of Gloster and in the Forest of Dean.
I beg your Highness' care of him and abide
Your Highness humble Servant,
JOHN DISBROWE.
To His Highness
Oliver, Lord Protector.
Wade was Overseer and Receiver of Rents and Profits of
his Majesty's Iron Works in the Forest of Dean in 1659,
but in June, 1660, it appears from a State paper that Sir
Hugh Middleton, Baronet, petitions " for the place of
Overseer then held by Major John Wade, Commander of
the County Troop in Gloucester " on the ground that
'Major Wade had the previous July kept Middleton 4
months in close imprisonment for adhering to his Majesty
and had several times ransacked his house.
It is unfortunate that there is no existing record to show
the date and place of burial of Major Wade,
According to family tradition he was buried in Filton
Church and a stone coffin in the Church which was dug up
many years ago was always thought by the family to have
been the Major's coffin but the age for stone coffins was
long prior to the Major's time.
One of Filton Church Bells, cast in 1734, bears the
name " Major Wade " inscribed on it, and is supposed to
have been cast in memory of the Major.
It appears from the Title Deeds relating to the Blaisdon
156 The Wade Genealogy.
Estate in Gloucestershire, which belonged to the Wade
family, that the Major died between August, 1680, and
March, i68r. His wife was Ann Lane of an ancient Glou-
cestershire family, who was a member of the celebrated
Broadmead Baptist Chapel, Bristol. The following relating
to her is taken from the Broadmead Records : —
Bristol this 22nd day of the fourth month June 1669.
To any of the Churches of Jesus Christ where this bearer
our sister may come — Grace and peace be multiplied unto
you &c. We .do hereby certify that this our beloved sister,
Anne Wade, hath been for some time and still remains a
member in fellowship with this Congregation in Bristol
being one that is very dear unto us upon Christ's Account
— We do therefore recommend her unto you beseeching
you to receive her in the Lord and to admit her into com-
munion and fellowship with you in all the ordinances and
privileges of the house of God. So we remain your breth-
ern in the faith and fellowship of the Gospel of Christ,
Thomas Ewens Robert Simpson
Edward Terrill George Robinson
Thomas Ellis William Dickason.
July 22nd, 1673.
Honoured dear and beloved Brethern and Sisters in our
Lord Jesus Christ our hope
In whom I heartily salute you and through whom I wish
all health peace and prosperity to your souls and bodies
with an increase of grace and comfort by the Spirit of
holiness which I desire the Lord may pour upon you daily»
more and more filling you with all joy and peace that you
may abound in all graces to his own praise and our ever-
lasting consolation through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Beloved, I have received yours of the 27th of the month
past accompanied with the blessed relation of God's gra-
cious dealings with us in issuing his depriving us of our
late blessed Pastor with the rest of his various dispensa-
tions towards us unto a calm settlement under the conduct
of another of his faithful servants; for which I desire with
you to bless and praise His name and trust he will enable
us to improve this our summer of enjoyments so as to lay
up such a stock of strength and holy courage as may carry
us through what future winter of trial and tribulation he
may please to bring over us.
In answer to what you desire relating to the condition
God by his providence has cast me in : — (r) I may say
Major William Wade, U. S. A. The organizer of the present Ordnance
Corps of the Army. (New Jersey family.)
Famous English Wades. 157
from experience that his compassions fail not but his
mercies are renewed every morning; and that although he
has cast my lot so that I sojourn as it were in Mesech, and
dwell in the tents of Kedar, he does not leave me without
such refreshings and supplies of strength from his Holy
Spirit and by means of his servants whom his providence
sometimes conducts to our habitation whereby he has
hitherto enabled me to persevere in and hold fast that
profession of faith of which you are witness.
2. As to my participation of those ordinances Christ has
instituted for our remembrance of him till his second
appearing as often as distance of place and infirmity of
body have permitted me I have had the enjoyment of them
with that Church of Christ in Gloucester walking with Mr.
Forbes to whom our deceased Pastor by word of mouth
commend me as you also did by the original of the enclosed
copy.
So my beloved fellow labourers I bless God who has
stirred you up to afford me so large testimonies of your
Christian care and watchfulness over me although absent
in body from you; and beg you that you would to your
consolations and godly admonitions, your prayers to the
Almighty for me that he would sanctify them to the use
you have intended them and that he would keep me sted-
fast to the end through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom I
commend your souls and bodies and in whom I will ever
send up my requests that we may be found at his coming
those that earnestly longed for and loved his appearance.
I remain,
Your unworthy sister in the Lord,
ANNE WADE.
To the Church of Christ in Bristol
walking with Mr. Thomas Hardcastle.
328. Thomas Wade of Micheldean, County of Gloucester.
Married : — Anne (daughter of ).
Issue : —
343. Thomas Wade.
^^T,. Thomas Wade of Filton.
Married : — Mary (daughter of ).
Issue: — ?
344. .
158 The Wade Genealogy.
Thomas Wade died May 20, 1731, and was buried at
Filton. His widow died March 20, 1743, and the estate
was forfeited to the Lord of the Manor for failure of a
reversioner.
339. John Wade of Filton and Bristol, gentleman, born
Married: — I, Anne Baugh of Pershore, Worcester-
shire and Twining, County of Gloucester, Novem-
ber T2, 1660, at Pershore.
Married : — II, Mary (died February 4, 1679).
Married: — III, Martha (died April 10, 16915).
Issue : —
345. John Wade of Filton.
346. Thomas Wade of Bristol.
347. Sarah Wade, m. William Clutterbuck of Frampton-
on-lSevern (d. June 25, 1685 ; bur. at Frampton).
John Wade died April 13, 1705, aged 63; buried at
Filton. •
340. Thomas Wade of Frampton-on-Severn, in the County
of Gloucester.
^^iUvrUU^ U^
Married: — Anna (daughter of John Dunch) of
Pusey, Berkshire (died July 17, 1787; buried at
Frampton-on-Severn).
Issue : —
348. John Wade of Gloucester.
Thomas Wade died in 1715, and was buried at St. Mary
le Crypt in the City of Gloucester. His will was proved in
the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury in
1715. Anna Dunch was co-heiress with (her sister) the
Famous English Wades. 159
wife of the Protector Richard Cromwell, of Richard Major
of Hursley, in the County of Southampton. (See Bigland's
History of Gloucester').
341. Nathaniel Wade of Bristol, Esquire, Barrister at law,
Colonel in Monmouth's Army, born about 1666.
.^^^
Married: — Anne (daughter of Richard Vicris, Mayor
of Bristol, in 1676). She died in 1735.
Issue : —
349. Hester Wade, m. Lawrence.
350. Damaris Wade, m. John Coysgarn of Bristol, mer-
chant.
351. Anne Wade, m. (1) — Daniel; m. (2) William Hibbs,
Esq. of Clifton, Bristol, about 1723.
Nathaniel Wade entered New Inn, on 11 June, 1673, and
the Middle Temple, 16 June, 1681. As a young lawyer of
the country party, and a frequenter, it would appear, of
the Green Ribbon Club, he had some dealings with Richard
Rumbold and other insurgent " republicans " in the spring
of 1683. He was suspected of complicity in the Rye House
Plot, and on the 23 June, a reward of ^100 was offered for
his apprehension, together with Rumbold, John Ramsey,
Richard Goodenough, and some other plotters. Three
witnesses were found to give evidence against him, but he
escaped to Holland, where he spent two years in an at-
mosphere of whig intrigue, and according to his own
account, acted as an emissary between Monmouth and
Archibald Campbell, ninth Earl of Argyll. He sailed
with Monmouth at the end of May, 1685, and landed at
Lyme Regis on 11 June. . Three days later he marched
with Forde Grey, Earl of Tankerville, in the direction of
Bridport, at the head of about three hundred infantry and
took part in an indecisive and shambling encounter with
the Dorset militia (London Gazette, 18 June, 1685). At
i6o The Wade Genealogy.
Taunton he first opposed Monmouth proclaiming him.self
King, but he subsequently overcame his republican scruples,
fighting in the van at Sedgemooras Colonel of Monmouth's
regiment. A good pen picture of Wade appears in A. Conan
Doyle's Micah Clarke.
For a man bred to civic pursuits, he seems to have had
in an unusual degree, that sort of ability and nerve which
make a good soldier. Commanding the infantry at the
Battle of Sedgemoor, and in the several skirmishes prior to
that event, he appears to have displayed great bravery, thus
affording a contrast to Lord Grey. At the battle of Sedge-
moor his regiment made a most stubborn resistance and
were the last to give in, and only then for the want of
ammunition (j).
After the Battle of vSedgemoor he fled to Ilfracombe
with fifty others, where they seized a vessel and put to sea,
but were forced ashore again by two frigates. He was taken
prisoner at Brendon, in Devonshire, on Saturday, July 26,
1685, by Richard Powell, the Rector of the Parish, who
was paid ;i^ioo for his work. Wade was hiding at a farm
called Farley, and, on Powell with others approaching to
arrest him, he attempted to escape, but was shot through
the back. He was disguised. On his head he had an
ordinary hat, grey clothes, leather stockings, the soles of
his shoes three inches thick and great nails in them. The
Rector stated: " I took up his coat to see where the bullet
lodged, and found that he had a good holland shirt on his
back. I told him that this shirt did not belong to those
clothes. He said his name was John Lane, but when his
wound became worse he disclosed his proper one" {z).
When lying wounded he promised to make a full discov-
ery of all he knew if thereby he would get his pardon {a).
(y) Robert's Life of 3fonmouth ; Wade's Confessions in Laus-
downe MSS. ; James it's Account of Sedgemoor in Harleian MSS.
{z) Wade's Confession; Letter of Powell in Lansdowne MS., No.
1153.
(a) A letter dated 30 July, 1 685, from Cooke and Ravening, to Sir
Bourchier Wrey.
Arms and Crest of Wade of New Buckenham, County of Norfolk, England.
(See p. 66).
Famous English Wades. i6i
He was taken to London and imprisoned in Newgate,
where James II visited him for the purpose of inducing-
him to give up the names of the persons connected with
the Rebellion.
Some of Wade's relatives, however, contrived to send him
in the plaits of his linen, which was washed in the City, the
names of those who were beheaded, and these he gave to
the King, of course, without injury to any one. " Your
friends. Major Wade," said the King, " have long been
with the dead," and finding he could learn no more from
him, and probably thinking that Wade had given him
what information he could, the King pardoned him (^).
Nathaniel Wade's Confessions, in his own handwriting,
are dated from Windsor the 4th October, 1685, and are to
be found among the Harleian MSS. in the British Museurh.
Macaulay quotes largely from them in his History of that
period.
He gave evidence against Henry Booth, Lord Delamere
(afterwards Earl of Warrington), and doubtless aided the
crown prosecutions in some other cases. (Howell, State
Trials, Vol. Ill, p. 542).
In January, 1687, James, anxious to win the good opin-
ion of the dissenters, sent him to Bristol with the order of
the council, for the " remodelling " of the corporation, and
he presented his special commission under the privy seal
to the Mayor on 4 February. In a second document,
setting forth the new appointments. Wade himself, by way
of reward, was nominated clerk of the city. His tenure of
office did not survive the events of the following October,
when John Romsey was reinstated (17 October); but he
seems to have retained some position in Bristol, as in
Queen Anne's charter to the city of 24 July, 17 10, he was
confirmed in his office of steward of the sheriff's court. In
1 714, he headed the militia at Bristol against the Kingswood
colliers. He resigned his municipal post after upwards of
six years' service, early in 171 2. During 1711 he took
part in building a bridge over the Froom at Wade street,
(6) History of Bristol, by Nicholls and Taylor.
[11]
i62 The Wade Genealogy.
Bristol, long known as the " Traitor's Bridge " Wade died
early in 17 18, and was buried on 14 March, 1717-18, " at the
foot of Mrs. Noble's tombstone." in Redcross street- burial
ground (Register). He was granted a commission as Major
by Monmouth ''on ship-board," and he was spoken of in his
later years as " Major Wade."
Nathaniel Wade appears at one time to have formed a
project with John Ayloffe, William Penn, Thomas Merry
and others, of emigrating to New Jersey, where he ex-
pected to find or establish institutions better suited to his
tastes than those of England. His brother, is alleged
by some, to have gone to Pennsylvania about the time of
the Rye-House Plot, sailing with William Penn on board
the ship " Welcome," from Deal, on the 30th August, 1682.
In his Confessions in the Lansdowne MSS., Wade says:
"The persons to have gone to America were John
Ayloffe, Roger, a Quaker; myself, Thomas Merry. The
seven to have been concerned in the plantation as propri-
etors were Edmund Walker, Edward Norton, Richard Nel-
thorp, John Freke, Thomas Merry, Robert West, William
Penn and several other Quakers;" and taking this statement
of intention as an actual fact, careless writers on the his-
tory of Woodbridge, New Jersey, have attempted to iden-
tify an early clergyman who had some dispute with a
congregation there as Colonel Nathaniel Wade. The error
is too patent to require more tlian mention.
342. William Wade of Bristol, a lawyer, believed to have
gone to America, but no trace of him has been
found there; the only William on record being a
yeoman of Hankton, Sussex, whose will, dated
Sept. 20, 1682, was proved at Philadelphia. (See
Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania,
Vol. I., pp. 49-50.) The Wades who sailed with
Penn have all been identified (see Shourd's Fen-
wick Colony)^ and William of Bristol was not one
of them.
Famous English Wades. 163
343. Thomas Wade of Micheldean, County of Gloucester.
Married : — Elizabeth Lane, at Micheldean, July 18,
1671. (She died June 30, 1680).
Issue : — ?
352. .
345. John Wade of Filton, Esquire.
Married : — Eleanor (daughter of Sir John Newton)
of Barrs Court, County of Gloucester.
Issue : —
None.
John Wade died May, 1710, and is buried in Filton Church.
His widow, Eleanor, died April 17, 1741, aged 80, and is
buried by the side of her husband in Filton Church. Her
will was proved at Bristol, April 29, 1741, by her nephew,
John Wade.
346. Thomas Wade of Bristol, merchant.
^4(^
Married: — Mary (daughter of Henry Whiting) of
Chewton Keynsham, in Somersetshire, (said to have
been a descendant of a brother of the last Abbot
of Glastonbury).
Issue : —
853. John Wade, b. 1696.
354. Anna Wade of Bristol, living unm. Apr. 28, 1770.
Thomas Wade died January ic, 1734, and was buried
at Filton.
348. John Wade of Gloucester, Esquire.
Married: — Hannah (daughter of Ridler) of
Haresfield, County of Gloucester, clothier, August,
1711; died 1743; will proved at Gloucester, 1744.
164
The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : —
355. John Wade. Lord of the Manor of Blaisdon and of
' Woodchester, d. 1793, unm. ; will proved at Lon-
don, June 12, 1793.
356. Thomas Wade of Bristol, living 1745.
357. Major Wade, d. Aug. 19, 1736, aet. 18.
358. Nathaniel Wade. bur. at St. Mary le Crypt. Glouces-
ter, May 31, 1722.
John Wade died in 1723, and was buried at St. Mary le
Crypt in Gloucester. His will was proved in the Preroga-
tive Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
353. John Wade of Filton, gentleman, born 1696.
Married : — I, Mary (daughter of Nicholson of
Bristol, died October 11, 1737, aet. 46).
Married : — II, Anne (died January 7, 1764).
Issue : —
353. Mary Wade. bapt. at Filton, Sept. 26, 1722; m. Paul
Britton, Esq.
354. John Wade of Henbury.
355. Grace Wade, bapt. at Filton, Aug. 15, 1726; m.
Eoberts.
356. Nathaniel Wade, bapt. at Filton, Feb. 5, 1728; all
irRPPS lost
357. Hannah Wade. bapt. at Filton, Jan. 19. 1734; d. 1781.
358. Ann Wade, bapt. at Filton, Dec. 25, 1738 ; m. J.
Morgan, Esq.
John Wade died October 24, 1760. His will, dated August
28, 1752, was proved at Bristol, November 29, 1760; buried
at Filton.
354. John Wade of Henbury, in Gloucestershire, gentle-
man.
^/zy
Major-Geneeal James Franklin Wade, U. S. Y. (Brigadier General
U.S.A.) His record was written large with his own good sword
in the Civil War. In uniform as and when, Colonel Commanding
5th Cavalry U. S. A. (Massachusetts family.)
Famous English Wades. 165
Married: — Elizabeth (daughter of Samuel Child) of
Henbur}', March 27, 1749. She died January 23,
1796, aet. 76; buried at Filton.
Issue : —
359. John Wade of Henbury, d. May 7, 1786, aet, 38; no
issue.
360. Thomas Wade of Shirehampton.
361. Nathaniel Newton Wade of Henbury.
362. Anne Wade, m. (1) Griffiths; m. (3) Bowen.
368. Mary Wade, m. Samuel Colston.
John Wade died September 21, 1786. Will proved in the
Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Octo-
ber 7, 1786. Buried at Henbury.
360. Thomas Wade of Shirehampton, Gloucestershire, gen-
tleman, born 1752.
Married : — ?
Issue : —
None.
Thomas Wade died November 7, 182 1, and was buried at
Shirehampton. By his will, proved at Bristol, February 19,
1822, he left his estates at Henbury to his brother, Nathan-
iel Newton Wade, and his property at Shirehampton to his
nephew, Edward -Wade.
361. Nathaniel Newton Wade of Henbury, gentleman.
^^
Married: — Ebenezer Bartholomew Rogers (only
daughter of Richard Rogers, Esquire), of West-
bury-on-Trym, Gloucestershire. She died 28th
May, 1852. Buried at Henbury. Will proved
at Bristol. Married at Clifton Church, Glouces-
tershire.
Issue : —
364. Thomas Wade of Shirehampton.
365. William Newton Wade of Newport, b. Mar. 18, 1795.
366. John Child Wade of Nempnett, b. May 27, 1793.
i66 The Wade Genealogy.
367. Nathaniel Wade of Bristol, b. July 16, 1796.
368. Richard Rogfers Wade, b. Aug. 6, 1801 ; d. Nov. 9,
1832, without issue.
369. Henry Wade, b. Nov. 19, 1802; d. Apr. 15, 1819, unm.
370. Edward Wade.
371. Ebenezer (daughter), m. William Bevau, Esq.. of
Stoke Gifford.
372. Ann EUinor, m. James Smith.
373. Jane. m. A. Wilmott, Esq.
374. Elizabeth, m. W. Williams, Esq.
375. Hester, m. James Stephenson, Esq.
376. Sarah, d. a spinster, July 11, 1822.
Nathaniel Newton Wade died 3rd December, 1842, and
was buried at Henbury. Will dated 31st July, 1841, and
was proved at Bristol, 5th January, 1843.
364. Thomas Wade of Shirehampton, in the County of
Gloucester, gentleman, born October 6, 1791.
Married : — Mary Dyer.
Issue : —
377. Thomas Wade.
378. Edgar Josiah Wade.
379. Esther Wade.
380. Mary Wade.
381. Sarah Jane Wade.
365. William Newton Wade of Newport, Monmouthshire,
gentleman, born March 18, 1795.
^J7^
Married : — Zipporah (daughter of I. Short, Esquire),
of Oldland Common, Britton, Gloucestershire;
married at Clifton Church, Bristol (died January
II, 1869; buried in Newport Cemetery).
Issue : —
383. Edward Wade, b. at Olveston, Gloucestershire, Dec.
14, 1825.
383. Henry Wade. b. at Olveston, Aug. 15, 1827.
384. Richard Wade, b. at Olveston, Apr. 28, 1830.
385. William Wade, b. at Olveston, Aug. 24, 1834.
386. Zipporah Wade, b. at Caerleon-on-Usk, Mar. 12, 1838 ;
m. Edward Edwards of Cardiff.
Famous English Wades. 167
William Newton Wade died March 15, 1878. and was
buried in the Public Cemetery, Newport, Monmouthshire.
Will dated September 22, 1874; proved in the Landaff
District Registry, September 2, 1878.
366. John Child Wade, born May 27, 1793.
Married :
Issue : —
387. William Wade, living in Australia, 1900.
388. Daughter, m. J. Light.
John Child Wade was buried at Nempnett, in the County
of Somerset.
367. Nathaniel Wade of Bristol, born July 16, 1796,
Married : — Elizabeth (daughter of Taylor) of
Bristol.
Issue : —
389. Nathaniel "Wade, b. Dec. 7, 1830.
390. Thomas Taylor Wade, b. Dec. 81, 1835.
391. Mary Ann Wade, m. Charles Evans.
392. Jane Wade, unm.
393. Elizabeth Wade, unm.
Nathaniel Wade died April 5, 1870. Buried at Shire-
hampton. Will proved at Bristol, May 27, 1870.
370. Edward Wade of Cross, Axbridge in Somersetshire,
born December 28, 1809.
Married : — I, Mary Lawrence.
Issue : —
394. Alexander Hart Wade, d. in Jamaica, W. I., 1851,
Married: — II, Jane (daughter of Rankin,
Esq.), of Bristol.
Issue : —
395. John Biddle Wade, in Australia.
Married: — III, Susannah Mines (daughter of Francis
Wride, Esquire), died April 24, 1859, aged 42 years.
i68 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : —
396. Eichard Edward Wade, b. July 28, 1841; dead.
397. Charles Wade, b. May 16, 1844 ; d. without issue.
398. Edward Fry Wade, b. Sept. 11, 1848 ; unm. ; a solicitor.
living at Axbridge, Somerset, 1900.
399. Beginald Wade, b. March 24, 1850 ; a physician at
Highbridge, Somerset, 1900.
400. Elizabeth Wade, b. Aug. 19, 1844.
401. Olive Mary Wade, d. an infant.
402. Emily Georgianne Wade, b. Aug. 21, 1854.
Married: — IV, Sophia (daughter of Mills,
Esquire). She died 1867, aged 37 years.
Issue : —
403. Newton Wade, b. Dec. 6, 1863 ; a physician.
404. William Mills Wade, b. Jan. 9, 1867.
405. Agnes Wade, b. July 2, 1862.
406. Edith Wade, b. May, 1865.
Edward Wade was a physician and surgeon at Axbridge,
Somerset. He died 18 , and was buried at Compton
Bishop, in the County of Somerset.
382. Edward Wade, b. at Oiveston, December 14, 1825;
baptized at St. Nicholas, Bristol.
Married : ( daughter of ).
Issue :
407. Issue living.
Edward Wade died August 28, 1898, and was buried in
the cemetery at Newport, Monmouthshire. His will was
proved September 13, 1898, in the Principal Registry,
London.
;i8;i. Henry Wade, born at Oiveston, August 15, 1827;
baptized at St. James, Bristol.
Married: (daughter of ).
Issue : —
408. One daughter living, 1900.
Henry Wade died June 3, 187 1.
384. Richard Wade, born at Oiveston, April 28, 1830;
baptized there.
Majok-General James Franklin Wade, U. B. V. (Brigadier General
U. S. A.) (Massachusetts family.)
Famous English Wades. 169
Married : — Sarah (daughter of John Davies) of Cas-
tleton, Monmouthshire.
Issue : —
409. Godfrey Newton Wade of Newport, b. Dec. 25, 1874.
410. Mar3' Zipporah Wade, b. April 8, 1871; m. Percival
Green of Liverpool.
Richard Wade lived at Newport, Monmouthshire. He
died June 17, 1893, and was buried at Castleton. His will
was proved in the Principal Registry in London, October
12, 1893.
385. William Wade, born at Olveston, August 24, 1834;
baptized there.
Married: — Maria Jane (daughter of William Tre-
harne Rees) of Holly House, Bassaleg. Monmouth-
shire, March i, 1870. (She was born September 23,
1841).
Issue : —
411. David Treharue Newton Wade, b. Jan. 7, 1871 ; a
solicitor.
412. George Rees Wade, b. July 25, 1872 ; mechanical
engineer.
413. Marcus Ithel Wade, b. Jan. 26, 1874: a solicitor.
414. William Biaisdon Wade, b. Oct. 17, 1875 ; mechanical
engineer.
415. Noel Nathaniel Wade, b. Dec. 26, 1876 ; a physician.
416. Harold Harding Wade, b. March 21, 1878.
417. Charles Eogers Wade, b. Nov. 3. 1884.
418. Elinor Newton Wade, b. April 19, 1879.
419. Blanch Rees Wade, b. Aug. 23, 1880.
420. Ethel Maria Wade, b. Feb. 18, 1882.
421. Grace Decima Wade, b. June 1, 1883.
422. Zipporah Jane Wade, b. Feb. 25. 1889.
423. Philip Richard Wade, d. March 4, 1887; an infant.
William Wade is a well-known Solicitor of the Supreme
Court of Judicature and Notary Public at Newport, Mon-
tnouthshii'e ; President of the Monmouthshire Incorporated
Law Societv.
170 The Wade Genealogy.
399. Reginald Wade of Highbridge, Somerset; physician.
Married : — (daughter of ).
Issue : —
424. Living.
411. David Treharne Newton Wade of Newport, in the
County of Monmouth, Solicitor of the Supreme
Court and Notary Public, born January 7, 1871.
Married : — Sarah Louise Lloyd (daughter of William
Rees Lloyd) of Gellywastod Machen, Monmouth-
shire, September 5, 1899.
Issue : —
425. Newton Lloyd Wade, b. Aug. 19, 1900.
THE WADES OF IRELAND.
Having now stated all that careful research has disclosed
as to the Wades settled in the North and West portions of
England, it becomes appropriate to refer to the branch of
this family which emigrated to Ireland at an early date.
Let one point be clearly understood, Wade is as Saxon as
Saxon can be. The Irish Wades are either the descendants
of English, who settled in Ireland, or the representatives
of Irish peasantry who, existing without surnames as late
as the reign of Henry VIII, adopted the name of one of
their conquerors. Cold comfort as this may be to the
Nationalist believers in a sept of McWades, the proposition
will be self-evident to every student of etymology.
Be the source what it may, bright indeed is the escutch-
eon of the Irish Wades. On the roll of great men and
doers of great deeds, we find Field Marshal General George
Wade, the pacificator of the Scottish clans and the builder
of the famous Highland Roads.
Famous English Wades. 171
Noteworthy is the tendencj' to militarism — that bugbear
of the timorous Colonel Bryan — for these Irish Wades were
nearly always soldiers of distinction.
We find on the British Army List, in addition to the
Field Marshal, that dashing soldier and brilliant diplo-
matist. Sir Claude Martine Wade. Son of a gallant East
India Company's officer, his fame rests securely and very
high as the first European to force the frowning Khyber
Pass, and as the man who for years kept peace "beyond
the border" of the British India of that day.
Nor is the Westmeath branch of the house a whit behind.
Its bright particular star is Colonel Sir Thomas Francis
Wade, the famous Chinese linguist and British Ambassa-
dor to China.
Melody claims a representation as well as martial ardor,
and finds it in Joseph Augustine Wade, self-taught and
his own worst enemy; his " Meet me by Moonlight Alone,"
will be a classic when his penniless, drunken end has been
charitably forgotten.
The science of botany has its representative in Walter
Wade (died 1825), the author of the first systematic ar-
rangement of the flora of that Niobe of isles, and who first
diffused a general taste for botany in Ireland.
Religion had her minister also in the person of William
Wade, canon of Windsor, a brother of the Field Marshal,
to whose virtues and modesty a memorial tablet, in the
Chapel Royal at Windsor, bears witness.
Lastly, medicine is today represented by Sir Willoughby
Francis Wade, who stands high as an authority among the
English-speaking disciples of Aesculapius.
Socially also, the Wades settled in Ireland were prom-
inent, so much so as to lead the kindly-intentioned Ulster
King of Arms, Sir Bernard Burke, to furnish them with a
pedigree of great antiquity. Ingeniously, but not ingenu-
ously, did he essay in the earlier editions of his Landed
Gentry to
" Take all the remarkable Wades out of history
Mingle them up in Hibernian tune."
172 The Wade Genealogy. '
As a curiosity in genealog'y (?) his statements are worth
preserving. He wrote as follows: — " Wade of Westmeath.
This family claims to be of Saxon origin and to have been
early located in the County of Northumberland. It became
afterwards settled at Glastonbury, in the County of Som-
erset, and was there resident in the fourteenth century.
From the Glastonbury branch descended Sir {^ic) Armigal
Wade of Belsize, in Middlesex, who was clerk of the council
tempore Edward VI. Sir William Wade, who in 1584, was
Ambassador to Spain from Queen Elizabeth, and subse-
quently Lieutenant of the Tower of London as late as the
year 1609. Sir William's son, William Wade, established
himself at Tangier in Africa as a merchant, but returned to
England previously to his death. His son, William Wade,
who held the rank of Major in the army of the Common-
wealth, obtained a grant of land in Westmeath and in the
King's County in 1653."
Burke concludes by placing Field Marshal George Wade
as the grandson of Major William Wade, and tracing the
later generations of the family in Westmeath.
Let us examine this farrago of weird and wondrous
make. -In the first place, no Wades have been traced in
Northumberland, other than in the references made on
pages 28 and 32 of this work. Wade of Northumberland
verges on the era of myth, and deserves a place beside
Thackeray's immortal ancestor of the Hugginses, " Hogyn
Mogyn of the Hundred Beeves." The Kilnsea Wades
were Yorkshire people at the Battle of Flodden Field
(1513), and before that, as early as 1379, were settled in
the Kilnsea district. Glastonbury, which is to Kilnsea as
Beersheba was to Dan, never boasted of any Wades, and
the Wades of Filton, Henbury, and Frampton, all near to
the "Severn Sea," are clearly of no kin to the Wades of
Kilnsea. Wade is a name man derives from the face of
nature, and man)' men, not related, could thus derive the
same name. The height of the ludicrous is reached in styling
Armigel Waad a Knight, when records of those created
exist, and Armigel's will and tombstone unite in terming
him a simple Esquire.
Frank Wadk Robertson, M. D.,
Actiug General Superintendent. Elmira Eeformatory. N. Y.
(Massaclnxsette family.)
Famous English Wades. 173
Lastly, there is not a scintilla of proof that Major Wil-
liam Wade of the Commonwealth Army was of the Kilnsea
Wades. On the contrary, the Kilnsea folk were Royalists,
as some of them found to their cost. There is no trace of
a William Wade as son of Sir William, and both Morant
and Wright, the historians of Essex, fail to notice such a
person. Nor will the dates fit. Sir William Wade died in
1623, leaving one son, born in 161 1. Burke would have us
believe that Field Marshal George Wade, (who certainly
was born in 1673), was the great grandson of William
Wade, the Tangier merchant, sou of Sir William. Now
James Wade, the eldest son of Sir William Wade, was not
born until 161 r, and if each descendant had had a son at
20 years of age, the tirrie would still be too short for the
Field Marshal to be of this family.
It is to be regretted that no information hereon can be
obtained from the reverend gentleman at present Vicar of
Manuden, Essex, as to entries in his registers. Repeated
letters have failed to elicit the courtesy of a reply, so that
it is charitable to presume that the wife of some predeces-
sor in the vicarage has, (as occurred in other parishes), used
the vellum leaves of the old registers to cover fruit and
pickle jars.
So far as ascertained, the pedigree of Wade of West-
meath follows: —
450. William Wade, Major of Dragoons in Oliver Crom-
well's Army, received a grant of lands in West-
meath and King's Counties, Ireland, in 1653.
Married : (daughter of the Reverend Henry
Stonestreet, Rector of South Heighton, Sussex).
Issue : —
451. Jerome Wade of Killavalley, Westmeath.
451. Jerome Wade of Killavalley, Westmeath, Esquire.
Married : (daughter of ).
174 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : —
452. William Wade, Canon of Windsor.
453. Jerome Wade of Killavalley.
454. George Wade.
455. Wade, m. Robert Cooke of Kiltynan Castle,
Limerick.
452. William Wade, Cation of Windsor, was born at Tan-
gier, it is said, in 1672, though his monument
would fix the date as 1670.
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue : —
456. .
The Reverend William Wade was admitted to St. Peter's
School, Westminster, in 1686, was elected Westminster
scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, June 28, 1690, and
Fellow of that college in 1696. He was appointed Canon of
Windsor in 1720, and died at Bath, February i, 1732. He
was buried in St. George's Chapel Royal at Windsor
beneath the following inscription on a marble monument:
" Here lies interred the body of Mr. William Wade, who
was remarkable for his benevolence and true Christian tem-
per. He received his first education at Westminster School,
from whence he was elected to Trinity College in Cambridge,
of which Society he afterwards became Fellow, and in the
year 1720, was constituted one of the Canons of this Royal
Chapel. He had learning and abilities which might have
raised him to the highest stations in the church; but such
was his modesty and the meekness of his mind, that he
chose rather to devote himself to the practice of all social
virtues in private life. He died at Bath the rst of Febru-
ary, 1732, in the sixty -second year of his age. His most
affectionate brother, Lieutenant General George Wade,
erected this monument to his memory."
453. Jerome Wade of Killavalley, Westmeath, Esquire.
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue : —
457. William Wade.
Famous English Wades. 175
454. George Wade, born 1673; Field Marshal of the Brit-
ish Army.
Never married.
Issue : — (Illegitimate).
458. Captain George Wade.
459. Captain John Wade.
460. Jane Earle (Wade), m. Ealph Allen.
461. Emilia Wade, m. (1) John Mason; m. (2) Jebb.
George Wade was appointed Ensign in Captain Richard
Trevannion's Company in the Earl of Bath's Regiment
(loth foot) on December 26, 1690. There is a tradition in the
Wade family that the future Field Marshal served at the
battle of Aughrim. This is most improbable, as Lord
Bath's Regiment was in the Channel Islands in July, 1691,
whence it was sent to Flanders the same year. In August,
1692, Wade served with his regiment at Steinkirk, and was
promoted Lieutenant on Februaiy 10, 1692-3. On April 19,
1694, he was promoted Captain- Lieutenant, and on June 13,
1695, was appointed Captain of the grenadier compan5^
On the breaking out of the war with France in 1702, Sir
Bevil Granville's (late Lord Bath's) Regiment was in Flan-
ders, and Wade served with his corps at the sieges of
Kaiserswerth, Venlo, and Roermond, also in the action with
the French near Nimeguen.
In the autumn of 1702, Captain Wade served at the siege
of Li^ge. It is recorded that his grenadiers greatly dis-
tinguished themselves in storming and carrying the citadel,
one of the strongest fortifications in Flanders. On March
20, 1703, Wade was promoted Major, and in August of the
same year served at the siege and capture of Huy. On
October 25, 1703, he succeeded to the Lieutenant Colonelcy
of his regiment, and in 1704, volunteered for service in Por-
tugal, whither a British contingent was about to be
despatched under the Earl of Galway. Through Galway's
influence, Wade received the staff appointment of Adjutant
General in Portugal, with the brevet rank of Colonel, on
August 27, 1704. In the spring of 1705. Galway laid siege
to the frontier town Valencia d'Alcantara, which was car-
176 The Wade Genealogy.
tied by storm on May 8. At this siege Colonel Robert
Duncanson, Colonel of the regiment (now known as the
33d foot), was killed, and the Colonelcy was bestowed on
Wade. Oq April 10, 1706, Wade was wounded at the siege
of Alcantara, but continued to serve on Galway's staff, and
accompanied the allied forces to Madrid, which was entered
in triumph on June 27. The tripartite comedy of errors
which was now played by the three leading Carlist actors,
Galway, Peterborough, and Charles, is too well known to
recapitulate. After a month of inaction at Madrid, Galway
left the Spanish capital with the allied forces and retreated
to Valencia. "The retreat was made in so good order,"
wrote Lord. Galway, " that the enemy, superior as they
were in number, never durst venture to attack us after the
warm reception twenty-two of their squadrons met with
from two battalions under the command of Colonel Wade
in the town of Villa Nova." Wade earned fresh laurels at
the fatal battle of Almanza on April 25, 1707, where he
commanded, as a Brigadier General in the Spanish Army,
the third brigade of British infantry, which bore the brunt
of the fighting and lost heavily. He miraculously escaped
capture, and joined Galway at Alcira, whence he was sent
to England with despatches. On January 1, 1707-8, Wade
was promoted Brigadier General in the British Army, and
returned to Spain in the spring. He was chosen second in
command to General James Stanhope (afterwards first Earl
Stanhope) in the expedition to Minorca, which sailed from
Barcelona in September, 1708. At the siege of Port Philip
which defended Port Mahon, Wade led the stormers, cap-
tured a redoubt and afterwards negotiated a capitulation.
Port Philip being reduced, the capital and whole island at
once submitted, and became a British dependency. Wade
received a complimentary letter from Charles III, and the
commission of Major General in the Carlist Army. In
November he was sent home with news of the reduction
of Minorca.
After leaving England, Wade remained in Portugal until
1710, when he joined Stanhope in Spain and was given the
Lieutenant John Pabsons Wade. 5th Cavalry, U. S. A. Aide-de-Camp
to Major-General James F. Wade (his father). This gallant young
officer raised the stars and stripes on Morro Castle, Havana, when
Spain filed out and Cuba first was free. (Massachusetts family.)
Famous English Wades. 177
command of a brigade of infantry. On August 20 was
fought the Battle of Saragossa. All the colors, twenty-
two pieces of cannon, and nearly four thousand prisoners
were captured, besides King Philip's plate and equipage.
Wade was recommended for promotion by Stanhope (see
Colonel Harrison's letter to Lord Dartmouth, on Septem-
ber 23, 1 7 10), and sent to England to ask for additional
troops and supplies. He did not return to Spain, but was
promoted Major General on October 3, 1714, and a month
later was appointed Major General of the forces in Ireland.
It was doubtful whether he took up his command, as he was
returned as member of parliament for Hindon, Wiltshire,
January 25, 1714-15. When the rebellion broke out, in
1 7 15, Wade was sent to Bath, which was strongly Jacobite,
in command of two regiments of dragoons. His zeal in
ferreting out conspiracies resulted in a find of eleven
chests of firearms, swords, cartridges, three pieces of can-
non, which had been buried under ground. Two years
later Wade was instrumental in discovering a plot against
the government, hatched by Count Gyllenberg, the Swed-
ish ambassador, who was arrested. On March 19, 1717,
George I. bestowed the Colonelcy of the regiment now
known as the 3rd Dragoon Guards, on Wade; and when it
was decided to send an expedition against Vigo, in 1719,
Wade was appointed second in command. This expedition
was entirely successful. Vigo surrendered, and Pont-a-
Vedra was taken by Wade, who captured and destroyed
the arsenal after removing the most valuable guns, stores,
and ammunition, which were sent on board the fleet.
In 1722, Wade was elected member of parliament for
Bath, which borough he continued to represent until his
death. Two years later, he was sent to Scotland to recon-
noitre the Highlands and observe their strength and re-
sources. Wade's report to the government on the measures
he considered necessary to adopt for the civilization of
the country resulted in his being appointed Commander-
in-Chief in Scotland. Now commenced under Wade's
superintendence, the construction of those important mili-
[12]
1 78 The Wade Genealogy.
tary roads which brought the inmost fastnesses in the
North and West of Scotland within touch of the rest of
Great Britain. Wade commenced his roads in 1726, em-
ploying five hundred soldiers in the work, who received
sixpence a day extra pay, and in three years his work was
well advanced. Wade's engineering triumphs in the High-
lands are recorded in the historic bull,
" Had you seen these roads before they were made,
You would lift up your hands and bless General Wade."
which was inscribed on an obelisk which formerly stood
on the road between Inverness and Inverary. Forty stone
bridges were also built by Wade's " highwaymen," as he
facetiously termed his working soldiers. Of these bridges,
the most worthy of mention is the one he built over the
Tay, in 1733. This bore on its parapet a Latin inscription
commemorating General George Wade, and complimentary
to his skill as an engineer and road maker: The lines,
which were from the pen of Doctor Robert Friend of
Westminster, ran as follows:
Mirare.
Viam hanc militarem
Ultra Romanos terminos
M. Passuum COL. hac iliac extensam
Tesquis et Paludibus insultantem
Per Rupes Montesque patefactam
Et indignanti Tavo
Ut ceruis instratam :
Opus hoc arduum sua solertia
Et decennali militum opera
Anno aer. Xae. 1733 perfecit, G. Wade
Copiarum in Scotia Praefectus
Ecee quantum valeant
Regia Georgii 2 di Auspicia.
Wade himself was styled by the wits, the greatest high-
wayman in existence. He seems to have communicated
his own stiff, formal character to his roads, one being de-
scribed as 16 miles long with only four turnings. But the
Scottish antiquary execrates his memory, as he went smack
through a Roman camp at Cudock with one of his
roads. ( " Memoir on Scottish Roads " prefixed to
Famous English Wades. 179
Burt's Letters, Gent. Mag., 1731, p. 488; 1754, p. 516;
Notes and Queries, 3rd Ser. , Vol. II., p. 192). The dis-
arming of the Highland clans was proceeded with so
slowly, and judiciously, that Wade became personly popu-
lar, even while faithfully obeying the most distasteful
orders (Stanhope, History of England, Vol. II., p. 86). Three
Regiments of Dragoons were raised in June, 1727, to in-
crease the military force in Scotland, and the Colonelcy of
one of these regiments was given to Wade, who had been
promoted Lieutenant General on March 7, 1727. In 1732,
the sinecure government of Berwick and Holy Island was
bestowed on him by George II., v/ho, in 1733, appointed
him Governor of the newly constructed Fort William, Fort
Augustus, and Fort George.
Wade was not in Scotland at the time of the Porteous
riots, but it was owing to his application to Queen Caroline
that Porteous was reprieved. On July 2, 1739, Wade was
promoted General of Horse, and in 1742, was appointed
a Privy Councillor and Lieutenant General of the Ord-
nance.
These honors were followed on December 14, 1743, by
the bestowal of a Field Marshal's baton and by his appoint-
ment as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in Flan-
ders, which were to co-operate with the Austrian and Dutch
contingents. The Due d'Aremberg commanded the Aus-
trians, and the Count of Nassau the Dutch. Opposed to
the allied forces were eighty-five thousand French troops,
under Maurice of Saxe. The French, superior in numbers,
were under an able commander, while Wade, who was
turned seventy years of age and in failing health, had
never before commanded an army in the field. He found
d'Aremberg and Nassau opposed to all his plans, and at
the opening of the campaign in 1744, the allied generals
had no definite plan of action. Within six weeks the
French reduced Courtrai, Menin, and Ypres, Fort Knoque,
and Furnes. George II, alarmed at their conquests,
made Lord Carteret write to Wade and inform him
that "it was his Majesty's pleasure the army should march
i8o The Wade Genealogy.
upon the enemy and attack him with a spirit suitable to
the glory of the British nation." {Carteret MSS.). The
allies crossed the Scheldt on July 20, in order to bring the
French to an engagement. The time was propitious, as
Prince Charles of Loraine, at the head of an Austrian force,
had won great success against the French in Alsace, which
compelled Louis XV. to withdraw part of his army from
Flanders. The French Army, however, took up a post
behind the Lys, and the allies, impeded by a divided com-
mand, weakened by discordant opinions, and hampered by
plans of a campaign prepared in England by the Earl of
Stair, effected nothing of importance. Wade and his col-
leagues were made the butts for pasquinades in the French
papers (Gent. Mag,, 1744), and appeared as comic figures
in French plays. Early in October, Wade's health broke
down, and he applied for leave to return to England,
whicb was granted. In the following March he resigned
his command. George II. expressed satisfaction at his
services, and further evinced his good-will by appointing
him Commander-in-Chief in England. On the outbreak of
the rebellion in Scotland, Wade took the field with all the
forces he could collect, and marched to Doncaster. Several
regiments were recalled from Flanders, and six thousand
Dutch troops were requisitioned from the states to serve in
Great Britain. The militia of several counties were also
called out. But there was no display of enthusiasm for the
king's service in the north of England. Wade seems to
have played the part of General Monk, and to have rested
on his arms, supine, until he saw how the Pretender suc-
ceeded. His officers were so anxious to attack the High-
landers that they are said to have dropped in his path the
following apt quotation from Shakespeare's King John : —
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A cockered, silken wanton, brave our fields.
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil.
Mocking the air with colours idly spread.
And find no check ? Let us, my hege, to arms!
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Monument erected in WeBttninster Abbey to the memory of Field Marsiial
General George Wade.
Famous English Wades. i8i
Cope could not cope,
Nor Wade wade through the snow,
Nor Hawlej'^ haul
His cannon to the foe.
Wadesays, "England is for the first-comer," wrote Henry-
Fox to Sir C.Williams, "and I believe it." By the end of
September, Wade's force, numbering ten thousand, concen-
trated on Newcastle. The Highland Army, flushed by the
victory of Prestonpans, marched to Kelso and made feint of
proceeding to Wooler, which put Wade on the wrong scent.
Turning suddenly westward they marched through Liddes-
dale into Cumberland. Carlisle was surprised and captured.
Utterly perplexed by contradictory reports as to the route
taken by the rebels, Wade marched to Hexham in the hope
of intercepting them. Arriving there on November i6,
in a snowstorm of unequaled severity, news was received
of the capture of Carlisle. The impassible state of the
roads prevented Wade from marching further westward.
Meanwhile, Charles Edward continued his victorious
march southward, followed by Wade. A fresh army of
eight thousand men, commanded by the Duke of Cumber-
land, was marching across Staffordshire. The Highland-
ers, under the able leadership of Lord George Murray, out-
marshaled and out-manoeuvered Cumberland, and reached
Derby on December 4. Two days later they turned their
faces homewards. Once more Lord George Murray guided
his little army safely between the hostile armies of Wade
and Cumberland, and reached the borders of Westmorland
in safety. Cumberland was appointed Commander-in-
Chief of the whole British Army, and Wade retired into
private life. He died unmarried, on March 14, 1748, and
was buried in Westminster Abbey. By his will, dated June
I, 1747, Wade left ;!^5oo for the erection of a monument to
himself either in Bath Abbey, or Westminster Abbey. The
monument was erected at Westminster over the Canons'
door to the cloisters. It is surmounted bj'^ his portrait in
profile, flanked by two figures, the Goddess of Fame pre-
venting Time from destroying the Field Marshal's sword,
armor and decorations, which are attached to a column.
i82 The Wade Genealogy.
The monument, which is some 12 feet high, bears Wade's
coat of arms and crest. Arms : A saltire, between 4 escal-
lops, or. Crest : A rhinosceros passant. The inscription
reads: —
"Sacred to the memory of George Wade, Field Marshal
of his Majesty's Forces, Lieutenant General of the Ord-
nance, Colonel of his Majesty's third Regiment Dragoon
Guards, Governor of Fort William, Fort Augustus and Fort
George, and one of his Majesty's Most Honorable Privy
Council. He died 14th March, 1748. Aged 75 years."
It is said that the sculptor Roubiliac used to come atid
stand before " his best work," the monument to Wade, and
weep to think it put too high to be appreciated. (Stanley,
Westminster Abbey, p. 267). Two portraits of Wade, one
anonymous and the other by Haecken (after John Vander-
bank), are in the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
A third portrait, painted by Adrian Van Diest, was engraved
by Faber. As a soldier. Wade's talents were more solid
than brilliant, and did not fit him for successful command.
He was a useful lieutenant, and an excellent leader in
action, but he entirely lacked initiative, and he was dis-
couraged and perplexed by responsibility. Anecdotes of
the Field Marshal are numerous and are to be found in
Defoe's Tour Through Great Britain, Vol. IV. Hone's Year
Book, p, 154, and Cunningham's Handbook of London (Cork
Street). See also the articles by W. Tyte in The Bath and
County Graphic, March, 1899. Wade is notable as one of the
four Irishmen who have commanded the British Army.
A contemporary account describes him as a notorious gam-
bler, but a worthy man, where women were not concerned.
457. William Wade.
Married: — (daughter of William Osbrey,
Esquire) of Dublin.
Issue : —
462. Thomas Wade.
463. William Wade.
Famous English Wades. 183
462. Thomas Wade of Westmeath, Esquire.
Married: — I, (daughter of Colonel Lowe) of
Newtownlowe,
Married: — II, Anne (daughter of Samuel Handy,
Esq.) of Coolyclough, Westmeath.
Married : — III, Miss Walsh of Walsh Park, Tipperary.
Issue: —
464. Jerome Wade, d. unm.
465. Samuel Wade.
466. Thomas Wade.
467. John Wade, an officer in the 36th Regt. of Fort
William, Galway.
463. William Wade.
Married: — Eliza (only child of Robert Aird) of
Airdrie, in Scotland, and Coolure in Westmeath.
Issue : —
46S. John Thomas Wade of County Monaghan.
William Wade died in 1815.
465. Samuel Wade.
Married : — Miss Davies of County Gal way.
Issue : —
469. Samuel Gustavus Rochfort Wade.
466. Thomas Wade.
Married : — .
Issue : —
470. George Wade.
469. Samuel Gustavus Rochfort Wade.
Married : — Eliza (daughter of Burton Persse, Esquire)
of Moyode Castle, County Galway.
Issue : —
471. Robert Rochfort Wade, b. 1852.
Samuel Wade died 1862.
184 The Wade Genealogy.
470. George Wade.
Married : —M.SLVY (daughter of Captain Thomas Nu-
gent), 2nd Regt. of Foot.
Issue : — • ■
472. Richard Wade.
473. George Wade of Ashbrook, County Dublin.
474. John Wade, dead.
471. Robert Rochfort Wade.
Married: — Olivia (daughter of Thomas Ironton,
Esquire), in 1886.
Issue : —
475. John Eochfort Wade, b. 1887.
476. Daughter.
477. Daughter.
478. Daughter.
Robert Rochfort Wade resides at Carrowmore, Aughrim,
County Galway, and is a Justice of the Peace and landed
proprietor.
472. Richard Wade.
Married : (daughter of Howes).
Issue : —
479. George Wade (in holy orders).
480. John Nugent Wade.
473. George Wade of Ashbrook, Dublin, Clerk of the
Peace and Deputy Custos Rotulorum of Dublin
County.
Married : — Caroline (daughter of Charles Domville,
Esquire) of Santry House, County Dublin,
Issue : — ?
481. .
* * * * * *
Next follows the Royal Descent of Claude Fitzroy Wade,
Esquire, Barrister at law, of England, (son of Sir Claude
Martine Wade, Knight), which, registered and enrolled in
the College of Arms of Ireland, is as follows:
Famous English Wades. 185
Edward the First, King of England, married Eleanor,
daughter of Ferdinand, King of Castile and Leon. He
died 1807, leaving a daughter : —
Elizabeth Plantagenet, Princess of England, born at
Ruthin Castle. Flintshire, Wales, in 1284. Married (1)
John, Earl of Holland, who died without issue two years
after his marriage ; married (2) Humphrey de Bohun,
Earl of Hereford, Lord High Constable of England.
By her second husband she left a daughter : —
Lady Elinor Bohun, married James le Botiller, second
Earl of Oarrick, who was created Earl of Ormonde, Nov.
2, 1828. Their son: —
James le Botiller, second Earl of Ormonde, married
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John D'Arcy of Platin,
County Meath, and died A. D. 1418. Their son : —
James le Botiller, third Earl of Ormonde, Lord Justice
of Ireland, 1377, married Joan, daughter of William
Beauchamp, Baron of Abergavenny (son of Thomas,
Earl of Warwick), and died A. D. 1428. Their fourth
son : —
The Honorable Edmund Butler of Powlston, in County
Kilkenny married , and among other issue, left a
second son : —
Walter Butler, Esquire, of Powlston, who married and
left a son : —
Richard Butler, Esquire, of Powlston, who married and
left a son : —
Edmund Butler, Esquire, of Powlston, who married and
left a son : —
Walter Butler, Esquire, of Powlston, who married and
left a son : —
Sir Richard Butler, of Powlston, Knight, who married
Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Shortell, of Upper
Clard, in County Kilkenny, Esquire, and died April 26,
1636, leaving, among other issue, a fourth son: —
Peter Butler, Esquire, who married Anne, daughter of
Lincoln, of County Waterford, Esquire, and died
leaving a son : —
John Butler, Esquire, who married Mary, daughter of
Granesborough of Waterford, Esquire, and died
leaving, among other issue, a daughter : —
Jane Butler, who married (508) John Wade of the City of
Dublin, Esquire, Doctor of Medicine. He claimed at
Chichester House, in 1700, the lands of Herbertstown.
in County Meath His will is dated October 4, 1736;
proved January 10, 1739. His wife's will is dated Feb-
ruary 6, 1744; proved September 11, 1745. This John
Wade was descended as follows :
500. Henry Wade, who married Lucy (the daughter of
O'Brien, Esquire), purchased the lands of Her-
bertstown in County Meath, in 1663. His son: —
i86 The Wade Genealogy.
501. Charles Wade, of Herbertstown, Esquire, adhered to
the cause of King James II., and to the Catholic
religion, and in consequence lost his estate of
Herbertstown. He married Anne, daughter of
Alexander Plunkett, of County Meath, Esquire,
and left a son : —
50-2. Richard Wade, Esquire, of Ball)^galore, in County
Wexford, where he purchased lands.
Married: — Mary (daughter of John Keough) of
County Wicklow, Esquire.
Jssiie : —
503. John Wade, M. D. (as above).
504. Charles Wade of Dublin, merchant. Will dated July
18, 1745; proved Aug. 7, 17n5.
505. Redmond Wade, Esquire. Will dated May 23, 1752 ;
proved May 18, 1775.
506. Mary Wade, m. Maude, Esquire.
503. John Wade of Dublin, xVI. D. (as above).
Married : — Jane Butler (as above).
Issue :•■ —
507. Walter Wade of Dublin, Esquire, M. D.
508. John Wade of Dublin, Esquire.
509. Francis Wade.
510. Joseph Wade.
511. Mary Wade, m. Richard Doyle, Esquire,
507. Walter Wade of Dublin, Esquire. M. D.
Married: — Mary (daughter of Kennedy, Es-
quire).
Issue : —
512. John Wade, General in the Russian Army ; no issue.
513. Joseph Wade, Lieut. -Colonel, H. E. I. C. S.
514. John Peter Wade, M. D., H. E. I. C. S.
515. Charles Wade, M. D., Physician to the Court of the
King of Portugal.
516. — Wade, dau., d. at Lisbon, unm.
508. John Wade of Dublin.
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue : —
517. John Wade of Dublin. Will dated May 28, 1783 ;
proved Jan. 29, 1799.
Arms, Crest, and Motto of Colonel Sir Claude Martine Wade, K.C.B.
Famous English Wades. t87
513. Joseph Wade, Esquire, Lieutenant Colonel in the
Honorable East India Company's service.
Married: — Maria (eldest daughter of Robert Ross,
Esquire, Major of Marines), May 9, 1793; died at
Bath, Somerset, England, October, 1862.
Issue : — ;
518. Claude Martine Wade.
519. Joseph Wade; d. young.
520. Maria Wade, married Singleton.
Joseph Wade was a famous and gallant soldier of "John
Company " in the days when great- deeds were done in
India, and with handfuls of men. He died in India, in 1806,
and even the location of his grave has been forgotten. As
Rudyard Kipling writes in T/te Tomb of his Ancestors : "All
India is full of neglected graves that date from the begin-
ning of the eighteenth century — tombs of forgotten colonels
of corps long since disbanded, mates of East Indiamen who
went on shooting expeditions and never came back; fac-
tors, agents, writers, and ensigns of the Honourable East
India Company by hundreds and thousands and tens of
thousands. English folk forget quickly, but natives have
long memories, and if a man has done good in his life, it
is remembered after his death."
514. John Peter Wade.
Married : .
Issue : — ?
521. .
John Peter Wade, M. D., was a noted Physician in the
service of the East India Company. Among other works
he was the author of (i) Select Evidence on Fever and Dysentery
in Bengal (1791), 8 vo, (2) Nature of Emetics^ etc., in Bengal
(1792), 8 vo, and (3) Paper on the Disorders of Seamen and
Soldiers in Bengal (1793), 8 vo.
518. Claude Martine Wade, born in India, April 3, 1794.
Married : — At Bath, Somerset, England, Jane Selina
(daughter of Captain Thomas Nicholl of the Bengal
i88 The Wade Genealogy.
Royal Horse Artillery, who perished in Elphin-
stone's retreat from Cabul.) (She was born July
26, 1829).
Issue : —
522. Claude Fitzroy Wade.
523. Cecilia Montague Wade.
524. Selina Harriett Wade, dead.
525. Ellen Maud Wade.
526. Charlotte Louisa Wade, dead.
527. Claudine Wade, dead.
Claude Martine Wade derived his first two names from
General Claude Martine, the French soldier of fortune,
who was a friend of his father. Wade was appointed a
cadet in the Bengal service in 1809, and immediately pro-
ceeded to India. On arrival he joined the institution at
Barasset, near Calcutta, where the cadets were instructed
in the native languages and in the practical part of their
military duties. After the shortest possible period — six
months — Wade passed out of Barasset, receiving the sword
of honor for proficiency.
After serving with the first battalion, 15th regiment of
native infantry, as a. cadet, he obtained his commission as
Ensign in the 45th regiment native infantry, July 29, 1812.
With this regiment Wade served in 18 13, in a field force on
the Gwalior frontier, and was afterward stationed at the
cantonment of Kunch. Through the unhealthiness of the
station he presently found himself in command of his own
corps and of a detachment of artillery. He acquitted him-
self of his charge in a manner which earned the approval
of the Governor General and Commander-in-Chief.
Wade was promoted Lieutenant on October 20, 1815,
and was actively engaged during that year in operations
caused by aggressive movements of the combined forces
of Sindhia and Holkar against the state of Bhopal, which
was friendly to the British government. From 1816 to
1819, he served in the Pindari campaigns, being also em-
ployed with the fifth division, under General Sir J. W.
Adams, at the siege and capture of the fortified town of
Famous English Wades. 189
Chanda. On the termination of hostilities, in 1819, he
was stationed at Lucknow.
In 1820-21, Wade officiated as Brigade Major to the
troops in Oude, and in 1822 he was deputed on political
duty to Calcutta, as bearer of a letter from the King of
Oude to the Governor General. On the completion of this
duty, he was appointed an extra assistant in the office of the
Surveyor-General of India, and completed the examina-
tion, arrangement, and analysis of the numerous maps and
surveys which had for many years accumulated there.
Some of his maps are in the British Museum. So satisfied
was the Governor General, Lord Hastings, with his per-
formance of this duty, that he desired to appoint him to
the political department, and recommended him to the
notice of his temporary successor, John Adam.
By the latter. Wade was, on February 28, 1823, appointed
to the office of Political Assistant at Ludhiana, where his
principal duty was, at first, the charge of Shah Shuja-ul-
Mulk, the exiled ruler of Afghanistan. Shortly after his
appointment to Ludhiana, however, negotiations of a very
important nature devolved on him, as the alarm and ex-
citement caused in India by the ill success of the early
operations in Burmah endangered the northern frontier.
Ranjit Singh, at this period in full vigor and at the height
of his power, suspended his operations against the Afghans,
and, assembling his whole force about Lahore, was ready
to avail himself of any British reverse by joining the in-
surgent Raja of Bhurtpore and other chiefs who were dis-
affected to the British government. Wade, who was
promoted to the rank of Captain on May 13, 1825, was in
constant communication with the vSikh ruler throughout
this critical period, and gradually succeeded in convincing
Ranjit Singh of both the power and the sincerity of the
British government. In 1826, the termination of the Bur-
mese war and the capture of Bhurtpore conclusively
established in the Maharaja's mind the conviction of
British ascendancy; and in the following year Wade con-
ducted a complimentary mission from Ranjit Singh to the
ipo ■ The Wade Genealogy.
Governor General, Lord Amherst, who, in return, sent
presents by Wade's hand to the Court of Amritsar. Lord
Amherst, shortly afterwards (autumn of 1827), entrusted
him with the entire charge of British dealings with the
Maharaja. Wade performed this duty for seventeen years,
during which time he was chiefly instrumental in main-
taining harmony between the British and the Sikh govern-
ments; moreover, he gained the confidence of Ran jit Singh
to such an extent as to be permitted freely to visit the
Punjab at a time when it was rigidly closed to British
officials. In 1830, on the occasion of the mission of Lieu-
tenant (afterwards Sir Alexander) Burnes, to Lahore,
Wade was instructed to take over the presents which
Burnes was conveying to the Maharaja, on the arrival of
Burnes at the frontier; but, seeing the importance of others
besides himself obtaining access to the Punjab, Wade gen-
erously suggested that Burnes should complete the mis-
sion. Wade was instrumental in arranging the historical
interview at Rupar in October, 1832, between Ranjit Singh
and Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, an event of the
very highest importance, which afforded convincing proof
of Wade's influence over the Maharaja. The complete suc-
cess of Wade's diplomatic dealings with the Maharaja was
repeatedly acknowledged officially in letters from the vari-
ous Governors General under whom he served to the court
of directors, and in the replies of the latter; he received
no other rewards for these services.
At length the determination of the British government
to depose Amir Dost Muhammad Khan from the throne of
Afghanistan, and to replace him by the exiled Shah,
Shuja-ul-Mulk, gave Wade the opportunity of his life.
The main advance of the invading army on Kabul was to
be made through the Bolan Pass, and thence through
Southern Afghanistan, but it was decided to make a con-
verging attack through the Punjab and the Khaibar Pass.
This subsidiary movement was entrusted to Wade, who
was promoted Major on June 28, 1838, and was given the
local rank of Lieutenant Colonel, " while serving beyond
Famous English Wades. 191
the Indus," on September 29 of the same year. Arriving
at Peshawar, his base of operations, in March, 1839, he set
to work with the utmost energy at his double task of col-
lecting and organizing an army, and of negotiating with
various sections of the Afridi inhabitants of the Khaibar
region, whom it was desired to propitiate. Wade was
assisted by a small but very capable staff of eleven officers,
of whom the most distinguished were Lieutenant Fred-
erick Mackeson, Dr. Percival Barton Lord, and Lieutenant
Joseph Davy Cunningham. He first attempted to win over
the Afridis, but, though partially successful, he eventually
found it impossible to satisfy the greed of all parties, and
was obliged to essay a passage of the Khaibar Pass by force
of arms. His troops were most unpromising as regards
discipline, though individually of good fighting material.
They consisted of five thousand Punjabi Muhamadans from
Ranjit Singh's regular army, of about four thousand un-
trustworthy Afghan levies, and of 380 of the company's
regular troops.
The object of Wade's operations being to aid the advance
of the army of the Indus, by compelling Dost Muhammed
Khan- to divide his forces, it was necessary to penetrate
the Khaibar Pass as early as possible. In consequence he
attacked Fort Ali Musjid on July 22, 1839, but little over
four months from the day on which the formation of his
force was begun. The fall of Ghazni compelled Dost Muham-
med Khan to recall his son, Muhammed Akbar Khan from
Jellalabad, and thus deprived the Afridis of Afghan assist-
ance. Notwithstanding the numerical superiority of the
enemy, Wade captured Ali Musjid after four days' fighting;
and, distributing his Afghan levies in positions command-
ing the road to Kabul, he continued his march to the
Afghan capital, which he shortly afterward entered, unop-
posed, at the head of the Sikh contingent. For his bril-
liant services on this occasion, Wade was promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant Colonel, receiving also the honor of
knighthood, the companionship of the Bath, and the first-
class order of the Durani Empire.
192 The Wade Genealogy.
It was stated by Lord Auckland in an official despatch
that "it was not upon record that the celebrated Khaibar
Pass had ever previously been forced."
After the fall of Kabul and the flight of Dost Muham-
mad Khan, Wade returned to resume his political duties
in India, and on March 31, 1840, he was appointed resi-
dent at Indore. He held this important office until his
retirement from the service on May i, 1844. During his
service in Malwa, Wade, among other achievements, af-
fected the settlement of the Bhil tribes, who, at that
period, gave much trouble, and it may be remarked that
throughout his long political employment he was uniformly
successful in dealing by peaceful methods with the most
turbulent races.
It is worthy of record that, at the time of his leaving
India, Wade had served continuously in that country from
1809; a longer period than any of his contemporaries, with
the sole exception of Lord Metcalfe. Wade, who had been
promoted to the rank of Colonel on November 28,
1854 ; died at Bath, England, on October 21, 1861. In
addition to receiving the Order of the Bath from his
sovereign. Sir Claude Martine Wade was the recipient of an
enameled and jeweled sword of honor from Ranjit Singh,
a similar sword from Shah Shuja-ul-Mulk, a third sword
from the Maharajah Holkar of Indore; two Orders of the
Durani Empire, and the Order of the most Auspicious
Star of the Punjab. His sovereign accorded him permis-
sion to accept and wear these gifts and orders, all of which
were placed on exhibition at the Victorian Era Exhibition
in London, in 1897.
Sir William Betham, Knight, Ulster King of Arms and
Principal Herald of all Ireland, certified on September 6,
1845, to the correctness of Sir Claude MartineJWade's pedi-
gree, and confirmed to him the coat of arms and crest then
depicted on the pedigree deposited in the Irish Herald's
College, viz. :
( To be continued. )
Famous English Wades. 193
Arms : Azure, a sal tire argent between 3 escallops or, in chief, the
Order of Kanjit Singh.
Crest : An arm embowed in armor, proper, holding a sword support-
ing the Order of the Durani Empire.
Motto : Pro fide et patrid, (For faith and fatherland).
His widow married in 1864, Edward Deane McDermot,
Esquire, M.A., M.D., and resided in Bath until her deatk,
June 8, 1900, aged 71 years.
522. Claude Fitzroy Wade, born at Ryde, Isle of Wight,
January 2, 1849.
Married: — August, 1880, at Clevedon, Somerset,
Lucy Mary (daughter of James Lean, Esquire,
late Judge of the High Court, Agra, India).
Issue : —
528. Hilda Mary Wade, b. June 13, 1881.
529. Claude Wade. b. February 20, 1883, Lieutenant East
Yorkshire Militia, 1902.
530. Lucy Euth Wade, b. July 9, 1886.
Claude Fitzroy Wade is a Barrister at law of England
and Clerk of Assize of the North Eastern Circuit. He
resides at The Knoll, Crystal Palace Parade, Upper Nor-
wood, London.
WADE OF CLONEYBRANEY, MEATH.
Another branch of the family dates from the early days
in the settlement of Ireland, and has produced famous Eng-
lish and American soldiers. It is noteworthy that one of
its cadets fought as a British officer at Bunker Hill, later
married a famous New York beauty, Ann Dean (see
portrait, ante p. 116), and gave to the New World a gallant
soldier of the Florida and Mexican Wars, Colonel Richard
Dean Arden Wade, who in turn was the father of Captain
Robert Buchanan Wade, of Reconstruction days. The ped-
igree of Wade of Cloneybraney is as follows: —
550. Henry Wade (possibly identical with No. 400, p. 185,
ante, and as such the common ancestor of the two
branches).
Married : — Anne O'Brien.
[13J
194 The Wade Genealogy
Issue: —
551. Catherine Wade (c), m. Bridges Daniel, Esq.
Henry Wade obtained a grant from the Crown of Cloney-
braney, County Meath, and 14P0 acres of land, Novembers,
1684. He was High Sherife of Meath in 1669. Will dated
May 19, 1685; proved June 7, 1689.
551. Catherine Wade.
Married : — Bridges Daniel, Esquire.
Issue : —
552. John Daniel, b. Jan. 15, 1717.
552. John (Daniel) Wade, born January 15, 1717.
Married: — August 28, 1739, (his cousin), Esther,
(daughter of Robert Shields, Esquire) of Wain-
ston.
Issue : —
553. John Wade I, b. July 11, 1740 ; d. in infancy.
554. Catharine Wade, b. Aug. 29, 1741 ; d. in infancy.
555. Anne Wade, b. Sept. 6, 1742.
556. Clotworthy Wade. b. Oct. 29, 1743 ; d. in infancy.
557. Eobert Wade I, b. Dec. 15, 1744 ; d. in infancy.
558. Esther Wade, b. May 3, 1746, m. Kev. Chas. Wood-
ward.
559. Elizabeth Wade, b. July 10, 1747.
560. Michael Wade, b. July 33, 1748 ; died in infancy.
561. Robert Wade II, b. Aug. 8, 1749.
562. William Wade, b. July 21, 1750.
563. Dorothy Wade, b. Feb. 21, 1752.
564. John Wade II, b. May 28, 1753 ; d. in infancy.
565. Richard Wade, b. Feb. 18, 1755.
566. Benjamin Wade, b. June 22, 1756.
567. Henry Wade, b. Sept. 3, 1757.
568. Catharine Wade II, b. Mar. 1, 1759.
569. Rowley Wade, b. Sept. 14, 1761.
570. Alice Wade, b. March 30, 1762.
571. Daniel Wade. b. Nov. 8, 1763.
573. Charles Wade, b. June 4, 1765.
573. John Wade III, b. 1766.
(c) The MS. pedigree compiledby the Reverend Theodore Leggett,
D.D., of West New Brighton. Staten Island, N.Y., differs from Burke's
Landed Gentry, in allegingthe existence of a John Wade, son of Henry
(550), who, having no issue, adopted his nephew Clotworthy Shields,
as his heir, and died 1735. Clotworthy Shields, who took the name of
Wade, is alleged to have been killed by a fall from horseback, Jan. 6,
1745, leaving John Daniel as his heir, who also took the name of
Wade.
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Famous English Wades. 195
John (Daniel) Wade died before 1777. He was High
Sheriff of County Meath in 1748.
561. Robert Wade II, born August 8, 1749,
Married: — Frances (daughter of Leigh), of
Drogheda, in 1771.
Issue : —
574. William Blayney Wade, b. 1786.
575. Frances Wade, m. (1) Major EobertTighe.Westmeath
Militia, M. P. for Carrick-on-Shannon, 1800 ; m. (2)
John Battersby, Esq., J. P.
576. Charles Wade.
577. Thomas Wade.
Robert Wade was educated at Eton, and Oriel College,
Oxford. (" Wade Robert, son of John, [formerly Daniels]
Cloneybraney, County Meath, Armiger, Oriel College.
Matriculated June 1, 1768, aged 18." Foster's Alumni Oxo-
niensis, Vol. IV, p. 1479.) He filled the office of High
Sheriff of County Meath in 1772; inherited the estate of
Cloneybraney and died there.
562. William Wade, born July 21, 1750.
Married: — Ann Dean (daughter of Richard Dean)
■ of New York, August 2, 1780. (She born in New
York, December 28, 1764; died July 11, 1838.)
Issue : —
578. Richard Dean Arden Wade, b. at New York, Apr. 36,
1796.
579. Anna Wade, m. Charles Ogden ; d. Dec. 18, 1859.
580. Frances Wade, m. Alexander Bleecker [d)
581. Robert Wade, lost at sea on return from Ireland.
[d) Frances Wade, daughter of William and Ann (Dean) Wade,
was a famous beauty of old New York. Her miniatilre, painted by
Edward Greene Malbone, the noted miniature painter, is in the pos-
session of one of her grandchildren, William Bleecker Seaman, Es-
quire, of the New York Society of Colonial Wars, New York. So
lovely were the lineaments that the miniature was reproduced in steel
engraving in the annuals of those days under the poetic name of
Egeria, It has recently been reproduced in color to form the front-
ispiece to Anne Hollingsworth Wharton's artistic book, Heirlooms
in Miniatures, Philadelphia (1897), and in halftone faces p. 116, of
Part II of this book.
196 The Wade Genealogy.
William Wade was educated at Eton and Oriel College,
Oxford, where he matriculated June 1, 1768, aged 17
{^Alumni Oxonietisis, Vol. IV., p. 1479). He declined to enter
the church, and his father piirchased for him a commission
in the 38th Regiment of the British Army. He was sent
with his regiment to America and took part in the Battle of
Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. His cocked hat, pierced by
an American musket ball at this battle, is to-dav in the
possession of his descendant, the Rev. Theodore Leggett,
D. D., of West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. Lieut.
Wade went to Halifax with his regiment on the evacuation of
Boston, and there purchased a Captaincy in the same regi-
ment. May 3, 1776. In June of that year, he was ordered
to Staten Island, and took part in the Battle of Brooklyn
in August. While stationed in New York, he met his
future wife, Ann Dean, one of the belles of the city. She
was the daughter of Richard Dean, an Irish gentleman
residing in New York city. An entry of the marriage
license is preserved at Albany. Her sister married Sir
Alexander Hamilton. William Wade resigned his com-
mission in the British service and settled in New York,
engaging in commerce. We find from Livermore's His-
tory of Cooperstown, N. V. (1862), 12mo. , p. 35, that he was
one of the adventurous pioneers of commerce who settled
in that township between 1792 and 1797, and engaged in
business as a merchant. He remained but a year or two,
and then returned to New York, where he died Septem-
ber 27. 1799.
574. William Blayney Wade, born 1786.
Married;— Frances (daughter of Sir John Craven
Carden, Baronet), at Templemore, Tipperary, No-
vember 6, 1808.
Issue : —
582. Robert Craven Wade, b. Dec. , 1809.
583. John Wade.
William Blayney Wade died at Cloneybraney, July, 1869,
aged 83. He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieu-
i'n-;i,f)-:\i:\RS!i,\T, (ii'O^r,?-; avadk.
Fikld-Marshaxi General George Wade.
(No. 454, pp. 175-182.)
Famous English Wades. 197
tenant for County Meath. His wife died abroad, about
1820.
577. Thomas Wade.
Married : — Anne (daughter of William Smythe) of
Barbaravilla, West Meath.
Issue : —
584. Thomas Francis Wade, b. Aug. 35. 1818.
585. Eichard Blayney Wade.
Thomas Wade was a gallant officer of the 42nd High-
landers (The Black Watch), rising to the rank of Colonel,
and d)'-ing in 1846.
578. Richard Dean Arden Wade, born in New York City,
April 26, 1796.
Married: — May 12, 1825, Ann McKean Buchanan
(who died at Savannah, Ga. , June 25, 1860).
Issue :--
586. Johanna Wade, b, March 30, 1826, at Fort Severn,
Annapolis, Md., m. (1) William Habershaw; m.
(2) Averill Barlow.
587. Sarah Elizabeth Merryman Wade, b. Jan. 5, 1828,
at Fort Trumbull, Conn. ; m. William W. Thomas ;
d. March 21, 1888.
588. William Wade. b. April 25, 1831.
589. Mary Buchanan Wade, b. Feb. 25, 1833.
590. Harriet Murray Wade, b. April 28, 1835 ; d. Dec. 9,
1855.
591. Robert Buchanan Wade, b. Aug. 1, 1844.
Richard Dean Arden Wade was appointed to the United
States Military Academy from New York, and graduated
October 27, 1820, when he was commissioned Second Lieu-
tenant in the Corps of Artillery. He was transferred to
the 7th Infantry, June 1, 1821, transferred to the 3rd Artil-
lery, October 16, 1822, promoted First Lieutenant, Septem-
ber 10, 1828, and Captain, December 26, 1840. He was
brevetted Major, November 6, 1841, for gallant and suc-
cessful service in the war against the Florida Indians, was
severely wounded at Churubusco (Mexico), and was brev-
etted Lieutenant Colonel, September 8, 1847, for gallant
198 The Wade Genealogy.
and meritorious conduct at the battle of Molino del Rey
(Mexico). He died at Fort Constitution, Portsmouth,
N. H., February 13, 1850.
582. Robert Craven Wade, born at Cloneybraney, County
Meath, December 6, 1809.
Married: —
Issue : —
592. Craven H. C. Wade.
593. Henry Meredith Wade.
594. Kathleen Elizabeth Wade,
583. John Wade.
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue : — ?
595.
584. Thomas Francis Wade, born in London, August 25,
1818.
Married: — Amelia, (daughter of Sir John Frederick
William Herschel and grand-daughter of the cele-
brated astronomer. Royal) at Westminster Abbey,
July 28, 1868.
Issue : —
596. Son.
597. Son.
598. Son.
599. Son.
Sir Thomas Francis Wade, who died July 31, 1895, at
Cambridge, was the elder son of Major (afterward Colonel)
Thomas Wade of the 42nd highlanders. From his father
he inherited a remarkably tenacious memory and a
great love of languages. In 1823, his father having
been appointed Military Secretary at Mauritius, Thomas
accompanied him thither, and at once began a regular
course ot study, including Latin. In 1827 he returned
to England with his mother and sisters, and was sent
to a private school at Richmond. Two years later he
Famous English Wades. 199
joined his father at the Cape, 'and there continued his
education with a private tutor until 1832. In the sum-
mer of that year he was sent home, and at the beginning
of the Michaelmas term was placed at Mr. Drury's house
at Harrow, where he spent five years. In 1837 he matric-
ulated from Trinity College, Cambridge, but at the end
of the year his father, thinking him best fitted for a mili-
tary career, bought him a commission in the 81st regiment
of foot, then stationed at Chester. A year later (1839) he
exchanged into his father's old regiment, the 42nd high-
landers, and served with that distinguished corps in
Ireland, and later in the Ionian Islands. Duiing the year
he spent at Corfu he studied Italian and modern Greek.
On November 16, 1841, he was promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant, and on the following day exchanged into the
98th regiment of foot, which was then under orders for
active service in China. On December 20 he sailed with
his new regiment, and arrived at Hongkong in June, 1812.
During the enforced leisure of this somewhat lengthy
voyage. Wade began the study of Chinese, and being the
only officer who had any acquaintance with that little-
known tongue, he was appointed interpreter to the regi-
ment by the Colonel, Colin Campbell (afterwards Lord
Clyde). Only three months after he had joined the regi-
ment he Was appointed Adjutant. He took part with his
regiment in the attack on Chinkiang Fu, and in the opera-
tions round Nanking. After the conclusion of peace, the
regiment returned to Hongkong (1843), where Wade's
knowledge of Chinese gained him the post of interpreter
to the garrison, and at the close of 1845, after a visit to
England on leave, he was appointed interpreter in Can-
tonese to the Supreme Court of Hongkong. A year later
he was nominated to the post of assistant Chinese secretary
to Sir John Davis, who was then superintendent of trade.
In 1852 be was appointed vice-consul at Shanghai, and
while holding that office took part in establishing the
foreign maritime customs. For the administration of this
new service an international committee was formed, con-
200 The Watde Genealogy,
sisting of Wade representing Great Britain, Carr repre-
senting the United States, and Arthur Smith representing
France. The largest share of the work fell to Wade, who,
after having seen the machinery satisfactorily started, re-
signed his office. In 1855 he was recalled to Hongkong
as Chinese secretary, and was almost immediately sent on
a mission to Cochin China, by Sir John Bowring, then
governor of this colony.
On the outbreak of the war of 1857 Wade was attached
to Lord Elgin's special mission, and to him fell the duty
of negotiating with the Chinese authorities the treaty of
Tientsin. In 1859 he accompanied (Sir) Frederick William
Adolphus Bruce to the Peiho, and in the following year
was attached as Chinese secretary to Lord Elgin's second
mission, after the defeat of the gunboats at Taku. In all the
difficult negotiations which followed he bore a leading part,
and he accompanied (Sir) Harry Smith Parkes on his first
visit to Tungchow, where on the following day Parkes, Lord
Loch and their escort were taken prisoners. With skill and
patience Wade eventually arranged the release of Parkes
and the other survivors of the staff of the first legation in
Peking. In the following year he was made a C. B., and
was acting charge d' affaires at Pekin from 1864 to 1865,
and from 1869 to 1871, when he was appointed plenipoten-
tiary. It was during his second tenure of office as charge
d' affaires that the massacre of foreigners at Tientsin
occurred. Though the attack was primarily directed against
Frenchmen, a British subject was among the slain, and
Wade took a leading part in the protests which led to the
punishment of certain of the rioters. In 1872 the marriage
of the Emperor T'ungchih led Wade and his colleagues to
urge on the Emperor's ministers the propriety of their
master receiving the foreign representatives in audience,
and on June 29, 1873, Wade and the other ministers were,
for the first time, admitted into the imperial presence. In
the following year a dispute arose between China and
Japan, which threatened to end in war. Indeed, the Jap-
anese envoy was on the point of leaving Peking when Wade,
William Wade, Esq.
(No. 385, p. 169.)
Famous English Wades. 201
on his own responsibility, undertook that the Chinese gov-
ernment should accede to the terms put forward by Japan.
To this eminent service special reference was made in the
Queen's speech of 1875.
On February 20, 1875, Augustus Raymond Margary, who
had been sent across China to Burma to meet Colonel
Horace Browne's expedition from Burma, was treacher-
ously murdered on his return journey near Manwyne in
Yunnan. Wade instantly demanded at Pekin that a full
inquiry should be made into the circumstances of the
crime, and after long and trying negotiations, in the course
of which he more than once threatened to break off diplo-
matic relations with the Chinese government, he succeeded
in obtaining a certain amount of compensation and an
assurance of future protection, and in connection with the
affair arranged with Li Hung Chang the Chifu convention,
which after a long interval was ratified by the two govern-
ments concerned. In 1880 Gordon visited Li Hung Chang
to consult with him on the threatened war with Russia,
and in connection with this visit it was stated by Sir
Henry Gordon that Wade and some of his colleagues had
suggested that Li Hung Chang should raise the standard
of rebellion and take possession of the throne. Certainly,
so far as Wade is concerned, this is not the fact, and the
rumor was publicly contradicted by him when the state-
ment first appeared. In 1875 he was made a K. C. B., and
in 1883 he retired on a pension.
On his return to England Wade took up his residence at
Cambridge, and in 1888 was appointed the first professor
of Chinese at the university. He was elected a profes-
sorial fellow of King's College. On his death he left his
large and valuable Chinese library to the university. In
1889 he was made a G. C. M. G.
Wade's life was one of action rather than of learned
leisure, and he had little time for writing. Nevertheless,
he was author of several works, which remain standard
books for the study of China and the Chinese.
202 The Wade Genealogy.
588. William Wade, born Aprir25, 1831.
Married :—'$i\xs^n Robinson Prendergast in Savan-
nah, Ga., November 28, 18G1.
Issue : —
600; Eichard Dean Arden Wade, b. April 15, 1863 ; at-
torney, Omaha, Neb.
601. Harriet Murray Wade, b. April 2, 1867.
603. William Ogden Wade, b. May 18, 1872; res. (1900),
Chicago, 111.
William Wade died in Chicago, December 1, 1899. His
widow resided there in 1900.
.591. Robert Buchanan Wade, born August 1, 1844.
Married : —Awgnst'il, 1868, at St. Louis, Mo., Isabel
NefE Budd.
Issue : —
603. Robert Budd Wade, b. Oct. 26, 1869.
604. George Knight Budd Wade, b. Nov. 4,1872.
605. McKean Buchanan Wade, b. Sept. 27, 1879; d. at
St. Louis, Mo., May 26, 1883.
Robert Buchanan Wade was appointed cadet at large
at the United States Military Academy July 1, 1861.
He was commissioned Second Lieutenant, 17th infantry,
June 23, 1865, and First Lieutenant the same day. Cap-
tain, September 29, 1867. Unassigned March 27, 1869.
On duty at headquarters, 1st Military District. Professor
of Military Science, Missouri State College, at Columbia,
Mo. Retired from the army December 31, 1870, and
entered a real estate firm in St. Louis, Died in Chicago,
January 8, 1884. His widow resides in St. Louis (1902).
592. Craven H. C. Wade, born at Cloneybraney, County
Meath, Ireland, April 14, 1845; resides at Rock-
field, Wicklow. Is a landed proprietor, a Justice
of the Peace, and has been on the roll for High
Sheriff.
Famous English Wades. 303
593. Henry Meredith Wade.
Married: — Eleanor (widow of Lance, Esq.) of
Glangwilly, Llanpumpsaint, Carmarthenshire,
South Wales, in March, 1894.
Issue : — ?
606.
Henry Meredith Wade is a retired officer of the British
Army, having attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel
of the 8th (or King's Liverpool) regiment. He resides
at Doward House, Monmouth, England.
604. George Knight Budd Wade, born November 4, 1872.
Married : — Theodora T. Knight, in Boston, April 5,
1899.
I'ssue : —
607. Euth Wade, b. at South Orange, N. J., July 11,
1900.
George Knight B. Wade is an attorney and counselor of
the bar of the State of New York; 1902, res. in South
Orange, N. J.
Yet another noted Irish Wade and in the fields of botany.
Unfortunately no trace of his parentage exists. All that
is knovv'n of him is gathered from an article in the Diction-
ary of National Biography and is as follows : —
Wade, (Walter) died 1825. Irish botanist, was a physi-
cian, practicing in Dublin in 1790. Aylmer Bourke Lam-
bert, in a letter to (Sir) James Edward Smith, states that
through Wade's exertions a grant of ;^3000 was obtained
to establish the botanic garden at Dublin, and that he
intended publishing a work entitled ^' Flora Dublinensis."
(Memoir and correspondence of Sir James Edward Smith,
II, 126-7.) Undated folio sheets of this proposed work exist,
with plates, under the title, '■'■ Florce Dublinensis Specimen,"
but it was never carried out. In 1794 Wade published
" Catalogus Systematicus Plantarum indigenarum in comitatu
Dublinensi . . . pars prima,''' on the title page of which he
describes himself as M. D., licentiate of the King's and
Queen's College of Physicians, and lecturer on botany.
204 The Wade Genealogy.
This work is in Latin (275 pages, 8vo.), arranged on the
Linnaean system, with carefully verified localities and
indexes of the Latin, English, and Irish names, the sedges
and cryptogamic plants being reserved for a second part,
which was never published. Lady Kane, in her anonymous
^' Irish Flora" (Dublin, 1833, 12mo.), says of this work
(preface, p. 7) that it was " the first that appeared in
Ireland under a systematic arrangement, and that its
author may be justly considered as the first who diffused
a general taste for botany in this country." Wade visited
various parts of Ireland in search of plants: in 1796 and
in 1805 he was in Kerry (ib, II, p. 160), and in 1801 in Cori-
nemara, "a district . . . never examined by any botanist
before" (ib. p. 148), when he was the first to find the
pipewort {Eriocaidon) in Ireland. In 1802 he issued a full
" Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Botany,'" (Dublin, p. 50,
8vo.), on the title page of which he is described as "pro-
fessor and lecturer on botany to the Right Honourable and
Honourable the Dublin Society." This syllabus is largely
historical, and refers to the arrangement of the Glasnevin
botanical garden. Wade's second work of importance,
however, was " Plantce rariores in Hibernid inventts," (Dublin,
1804, p. 214, 8vo. ), an English work, reprinted from the
" Transactions of the Dublin Society" (1803, Vol. IV.). About
this time Wade was awarded a prize of ;^5 by the Dublin
Society for the discovery of mosses new to Ireland (Lon-
don, Magazine of Natural History, 1829. II., 305); and on the
title of his " Sketch of Lectures on Meadow and Pasture Grasses
delivered in the Dublin Society's Botanical Garden, Glasnevin"
(Dublin, 1808, p. 55, 8vo.), he is described as physician
to the Dublin General Dispensary and lecturer on botany
to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In 1811 he
published '''' Salices, or an Essay towards a General History of
Willows" (Dublin, 8vo. ), his chief remaining independent
work. Wade died in Dublin in 1825. He had been elected
an associate of the Linnean Society in 1792. Besides the
works already mentioned, he published " Sketch of Lectures
on Artificial or Sown Grasses " (Dublin, 1808, p. 51, 8 vo.),
Famous English Wades. 205
catalogues of the Glasnevin Garden, and several papers in
the Dublin Society's Transactions (Vols. II. -VI.), of which
the most important are on '■'■ Buddlea Globosa, Holcus odoratus"
and "■Oaks" the latter in the main a translation from Mich-
aux's ''•Chenes de V Anierique septentrionale" (Royal Society's
Catalogue of Scientific Papers, VI, 221). He also projected
a work entitled " Flora Hibernica" which never appeared.
We turn finally to talents tarnished and abilities thrown
to the winds. It is the pitiful life story of Joseph Augus-
tine Wade (1796P-1845) the Irish musical composer. He
was, according to his biographer in the Dictionary of National
Biography^ born in Dublin in 1796 or 1797. His father is
said to have been a dairyman near Thomas Street, Dublin.
He was a school-fellow of Richard Robert Madden at
Chaigneau's Academy, Usher Street, Dublin, from about
1814 to 1816. Wade is said to have been a student at
Trinity College, Dublin, to have been a junior clerk in the
Irish record office, and to have studied anatomy at the
Irish College of Surgeons, but none of the records of the
institutions bear any traces of his name, though in late
years he may, with William Rooke, have found employ-
ment in the record office. Equal uncertainty surrounds
his early musical education ; he was probably self-taught.
He quitted Dublin and married a lady of fortune, a Miss
Kelly of Garnaville, near Athlone, but he soon became
tired of her. A song of his exists addressed to "Lovely
Kate of Garnavilla. " On his return to Dublin he is said to
have acquired considerable skill as an anatomist and sur-
geon in the Irish capital. Surgery was, however, soon
abandoned, and Wade became a poet-musician. Sir John
Andrew Stevenson, recognizing his great gift of melody,
advised Wade to apply for the University chair of music
dormant since 1774, after the resignation of Lord Morning-
ton, but the matter fell through. Wade migrated to Lon-
don, where he became conductor of the opera during
Monck Mason's regime. An oratorio by him, "-The
Prophecy" from Pope's '■'■Messiah" was produced at Couent
Garden Theatre on March 24, 1824; his opera, ''The Two
206 The Wade Genealogy.
Houses of Granada,'" of which he wrote both words and
music, was first performed at Drury Lane on 31 October,
1826, with Braham as Don Carlos. In the same year (1826)
he composed and published his most successful song, of
which he also wrote the words, "-Meet me by Moonlight Alone,"
which had extraordinary popularity. It enjoyed the good
fortune to be further immortalized by the witty Father
Prout in Frasers Magazine (October, 1834, p. 480), in a
French garb: —
Viens au bosquet, ce soir, sans temoin,
Dans la vallon, au clair de la lune.
A man of remarkable gifts and acquirements as a writer
of lyrics, a composer, a violinist, and a journalist, witty
and quick in perception. Wade became dissipated to the last
degree. He drank to excess, and latterly acquired the
habit of taking opium. For the last few years of his life
he was almost unknown. He did some editorial work for
the house of Chappell & Co. at a salary of ;2^300 a year, and
in that capacity, with William Crotch and (Sir) George
Alexander Macfarren, he harmonized some of the airs of
W. Chappell's ^'Popular Music of the Olden Time"," originally
published in 1840 as "^ Collection of National English Airs" \
he also contributed to ^'Bentlefs Miscellany" and the Illus-.
trated London News, but he could never be relied upon.
He died penniless, in a state of mental derangement,
at his lodgings, 450 Strand, on July 15, 1845. His
first christian name appears in the death registers at
Somerset House as Joseph (not John) and his surname as
Ward. His first wife having died childless, Wade subse-
quently formed some irregular matrimonial connections,
and at his death a subscription was raised for his presumed
widow and her two destitute children. Wade's character
may be best summarized in the words of the Rev. John
Richardson {Recollections, 1855, I, 231): "A wise man in
theory and a fool in practice. A vigororous intellect;
planning everything, performing nothing. Always in
difficulties, having the means at hand to extricate himself
from their annoyance, yet too apathetic to arouse himself
Famous English Wades. 20?
to an effort; content to dream away his time in any occu-
pation but that which the requisitions of the occasion
demanded."
In addition to the works already mentioned, Wade com-
posed: ^'- The Pupil of Da Vinci" (operetta by Mark Lemon),
"■Polish Melodies" (words and music), 1831, "^ Woodlana
Life" (polacca interpolated into Weber's '■'■Der Freischutz"
and sung by Braham), "6'd7«g- of the Flowers'' (2 books), 1827-8 ;
many pianoforte pieces, arrangements, etc., and also
many vocal duets and songs. He compiled a '■"Handbook for
the Pianoforte " which he dedicated to Listz. As a com
poser he is now forgotten. He left a '■'■History of Music" in
manuscript.
A final word as to Wades in the principality of Wales. The
question first arose when the compiler was confronted with
the arms, crest and motto adopted by the Wades of New
Jersey (see chapter HI), who, beneath the arms and crest
of Wade of Kilnsay, Yorkshire, added the Welsh motto
Y fynno D7vy y fydd (What God willeth shall be). In rela-
tion to this family, and aswill be seen in the appropriate
chapter, some variations of the family tradition would-
ascribe a Welsh origin for the emigrant ancestor, Benjamin
Wade. But investigation and probability fail to aid the
claim.
Wade as a name is not Cymric. Early as was the grad-
ual invasion of the Marches and of Wales proper, it
must needs have included several lusty Wades as actors in
the drama and as .squires or men-at-arms. But recent and
careful search in Wales proves that the only case of Wades
being in Wales for any length of time, occurs in Pembroke-
shire, where they came from Ireland during the time the
Protestants were persecuted. The earliest traces are David
Wade of Steynton, in the County of Pembroke, will proved
1617, but missing from the Registry — John Wade of Roach,
Pembrokeshire, will proved 1617; wife's name Jane Lloyd
Wade — David Wade of Monkton, Pembrokeshire, will
proved 1627 — George Wade of Manorbear, Pembroke-
shire, will proved July 30, 1676; the will mentions his wife
Mary and eldest son John. This family is represented by
Dr. T. Wade Richards of Cardiff, and Arthur Wade Evans,
Esq., B. A. of Cambridge. The above more tully appears
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210 The Wade Genealogy.
As an example of the utter unreliability of family tradi-
tion, precious as it is to female genealogists (?) of the Mail
and Express stripe, the compiler draws attention to the
pedigree of Wade printed in '■^ The Proceedings of the Historical
Society of Lancashire and Cheshire," Vol. Ill (1849), pp. 85-99,
where, in an account of Church Minshull, in the County of
Chester, mention is made of an old family of Wades there
located, and of a well-settled local as well as family tradi-
tion, that Field Marshal General George Wade (as to whom
see ante, pp. 175-182), was of this family and was buried in
the old Wade tomb in Minshull churchyard ! Except for this
extraordinary mis-statement there is little to be gleaned
from the pedigree, which may be stated as follows: —
700. Hugh Wade of Church Minshull, in the County of
Chester, born about 1540, or before that.
Married: — Anne (daughter of ).
Issue: —
701. Margaret Wade, bapt. May 24, 1563.
702. Eichard Wade, bapt, Aug. 23, 1565.
703. Isabell Wade, bur. Aug. 8, 1580.
? 704. Hugh Wade, bur. March 15, 1021.
705. George Wade, ) . • „ bur. June 10, 1580.
706. Francis Wade, i" ^^^°^' bapt. Sept. 30. 1573.
707. John Wade, bapt. May 5, 1575.
708. Anne Wade, bapt. April 21, 1577; bur. June 18, 1580.
709. Edward Wade, bapt. March 19, 1581; bur. July 25, 1590.
Hugh Wade was buried at Church Minshull, April 11,
1597. His wife Anne, left ^6.13.4. to the poor of the
parish.
702. Captain Richard Wade, baptized at Minshull, August
23, 1565.
Married: (daughter of ).
Issue: —
710. Edward Wade, bapt. Aug. 21, 1614.
711. Mary Wade, bur. Oct. 15, 1617.
712. Peter Wade, bapt. Dec. 19. 1619.
Famous English Wades. 211
704. Hugh Wade (perhaps son of Hugh).
Married: —
Issue: — •
713. Hugh Wade, bapt. Aug. 20, 1628; bur. April 8, 1703.
Hugh Wade was buried at Minshull, March 15, 1621.
713. Hugh Wade, baptized August 20, 1628.
Married: .
Issue: —
714. Edward Wade, bapt. March 10, 1657; bur. Feb. 14, 1735.
715. Peter Wade, bur, D.ec. 17, 1669, '
716. Mary Wade, bur, JulyM5, 1678.
Hugh Wade was buried April 8, 1703, at Minshull.
714. Edward Wade, baptized March 10, 1657.
Married: — Ann (daughter of ) ; buried Septem-
ber 7, 1727.
Issue: —
717. Peter Wade of Middlewich, bapt. Feb. 20, 1683.
718. Anne Wade, bapt. May 1, 1684.
719. Elizabeth Wade, bapt. July 22, 1688.
720. Jane Wade, bapt. Jan. 28, 1690 ; mar. 1721, John de
Bank of Leek.
721. Edward Wade, lived in London; bapt. July 31, 1963.
722. Susannah Wade, bapt. April 26, 1696; mar. May 30,
1717, John Sidebotham of Congleton.
723. James Wade, bapt. Feb. 21, 1698; bur. July 28, 1743.
724. Richard Wade, bapt. Oct. 27, 1701; bur. July 6, 1720.
Edward Wade was buried at Minshull, February 14, 1735.
717. Peter Wade of Middlewich, baptized February 20,
1682.
Married: — Mrs. Mary Whittingham, June 8, 1721.
Issue: —
725. Eichard Wade, bur. Feb. 8, 1736,
Peter Wade was buried at Minshull, April 6, 1746,
723. James Wade, baptized February 21, 1698.
Married: — Anna ; buried May 4, 1730.
212 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue:
726, Edward Wade, bur. Dec. 26, 1728.
727. Ann Wade, bapt. July 26, 1728; bur. Dec. 26, 1728.
James Wade was buried at Minshull, July 28, 1743.
It remains to chronicle an industrious writer who has
defied identification as to his ancestors. The Dictionary of
National Biography includes John Wade (1788-1875), who
was an industrious writer connected with the English
press throughout his career. He contributed to many-
periodicals, and was an esteemed leader writer on the
Spectator when that paper was under Robert Stephen
Rintoul's editorship between 1828 and 1858. As an
author, his greatest success was ''■The Black Book, or
Corruption Unmasked! Being an Account of Persons^ Places, ana
Sinecures,'' 1820-3, 2 Vols. Published by Effingham Wilson,
and brought out when the reform excitement was com-
mencing, it produced a considerable sensation, and fifty
thousand copies were sold. With some alterations in the
title it was reproduced in 1831, 1832, and 1835. In 1826
he wrote for Longman's '■'■The Cabinet Lawyer; a Popular
Digest of the Laws of England," the twenty- fifth edition of
which appeared in 1829. Another popular work was
'^British History, chronologically arranged," 1839; supplement
1841; 3rd edition 1844; 5th edition 1847.
Effingham Wilson paid Wade so much a week for years
while he was compiling the ''British History," and supplied
him with all the necessary works of reference [AthencBum,
1875, II, 576). Wade also edited an annotated ''Junius,"
including letters by the same writer under other
signatures (1850, in Bohn's Standard Library, 2 Vols.)
Here he was out of his depth, and the imperfections of
his edition and specially of his introduction, were pointed
out by Charles W. Dilke in the Athenceufn of February 2
et seq. (reprinted in Dilke's "Papers of a Critic," 1875,11, 47-
124). Literature he did not find a profitable employment,
and his main dependence in his later years was a civil
list pension of ;^50, granted to him June 19, 1862, by Lord
Palmerston, chiefly on the representation of Effingham
Famous English Wades. 213
Wilson. He was a vice-president of the historical section
of the Institution d'Afrique of Paris.
He died at Chelsea on September 29, 1875, and was
buried in Kensal Green Cemetery on 2 October.
Besides the work already mentioned he wrote: 1. ^'Digest
of Facts and Principles on Bankings" 182G. 2. ^'■An Account of
Public Charities in England and Wales," 1828. 3. ''Annual
Abstract of New Arts and Law Cases " 1828. 4. "^ Treatise on
the Police and Crimes of the Metropolis, "1829. 5. ' 'History of the
Middle and Working Classes, Also an Appendix of Prices,'' 1833,
3rd edition, 1835. 6. ''Glances at the Times and Reform
Government,'' 1840, five editions. 7. ''Unre formed Abuses in
Church a7id State,'' l^id. 8. ''England's Greatness, Its Rise atia
Progress, from the Earliest Period to the Peace of Paris," 1856.
9. ' ' Women, Past and Present, Exhibiting their Social Vicissitudes,
Single and Matrimonial Relations, Rights, Privileges and Wrongs,"
1859. 10. "The Cabinet Gazetteer, a Popular Exposition of the
Countries of the World," 1853.
Last, but not least in the list of English Wades worthies,
let us place Thomas Wade (1805-1875), the poet, who was
the son of Searles Wade of Woodbridge, Suffolk (see ante,
p. 67), where he was born in 1805. He must have come to
London young, probably possessed of a moderate compe-
tence, and the miscellaneous knowledge evinced in a volume
of poems published before he attained his majority, seems
to indicate a self-educated man. This little book, ^'Tassoana
the Sisters . . . Poems" (London, 1825, &vo.), with a preface,
dated December, 1824, in the main reflects the style of
Byron and Moore, but the longest and best piece, " The
Nuptials of Juno," betrays the strongest influence from
Shelley's "Witch of Atlas." It is full of glowing fancy, and
exhibits a command of language and rhythm which the
writer rarely attained afterwards. For some time Wade's
attention was chiefly given to the drama. " Woman's Love,
or the Triumph of Patience," afterwards entitled "Duke
Andrea," a play founded on the story of Griselda, was per-
formed at Covent Garden in December, 1828, and succeeded
through the fine acting of Charles Kemble in the principal
214 The Wade Genealogy.
character; it was published in duodecimo in 1829, and went
through two editions. " The Phrenologists^'" a farce (Janu-
ary, 1830), was likewise successful; but " The Jew of Arra-
gon, or the Hebrew Queen" a tragedy (in five acts and in
verse), produced at Covent Garden in October of that same
year, though supported not only by Charles but by Fanny
Kemble, was literally howled off the stage on account of
the partiality shown to the Jews. Wade, nothing daunted,
published his play with a dedication to the Jews of Eng-
land, and restored in capitals the passages expunged by the
licenser on political grounds (London, 12mo.). About this
time he composed two other unacted tragedies. One
'■' Elfrida" is lost; the manuscript of the other, '■^ King
Henry 11,'^ is in the possession of Mr. Buxton Forman,
who describes it as " Elizabethan, but not imitative," and
considers it a stronger work than either of the published
dramas. Wade now became a frequent cbntributor of
poetry to the Monthly Repository, an asylum for much of
the unacknowledged genius, or merely ambitious strivings,
of that period of interregnum between Byron and Tenny-
son. His contributions, with many other poems, appeared
in March, 1835, in a volume fancifully entitled '■^ Mundi et.
Cordis, de Rebus sempiternis et temporariis, Carmina. " It was
known among contemporary men of letters by its short
title of '■'• Mundi et Cordis Carmina,'" and in 1837 Wade
advertised it under the English name, " Songs of the Uni-
verse and of the Heart." This collection, equally with
Browning's ^'•Pauline," published two years earlier, indi-
cates the extent to which English poetry was becoming
influenced by Shelley, and, with all its numerous and pro-
voking imperfections,* retains on this account a permanent
value. Wade next began the publication of short poems
in pamphlet form, intended to be ultimately united into a
volume. " The Contention of Death and Love," an apotheosis
of a dying poet, with especial allusion to Shelley";
"■Helena," a narrative poem too closely imitating Keats's
'■'■Isabella"', and " The Shadow Seeker" appeared simultane-
ously in 1837; " Prothanasia," a powerful blank verse study
Famous English Wades. 215
of suicidal impulse, suggested by the history of Caroline
von Gunderode, with other shorter poems, in 1839. These
little verse pamphlets, rarer than even the original issues
of a kindred undertaking, Browning's ^' Bells and Pome-
granates^'' are scarcely ever to be met united. Mr. Buxton
Forman has reprinted the " Contention of Death and Love,'"
and '"''Helena" in '''Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century.''
While thus ineffectually contending tor the poetic laurel
Wade had married Lucy Bridgman, a widow well-known
as a pianist, under her maiden name of Eager, and the
union proved most fortunate. His means had been partly
invested in Bell's Weekly Messenger, which he edited for
a time, but eventually he disposed of his interest, in con-
sequence of disagreements with his partner, and, probably
impaired resources, retired to Jersey, where for many
years he successfully conducted the British Press. He
continued to contribute verses to the magazines, but made
no sustained poetical effort except in the "Monologue of
Konrad," from the " Dziady" of Mickiewicz (derived
through a French prose version of 1834), and a translation
of Dante's "Inferno," noteworthy as the first English
version in the original metre, executed in 1845 and 1846.
T\\Q " Monologue of Konrad" was published in the Illumi-
nated Magazine of 1845 (a volume edited by W. J. Linton).
Mr. Buxton Forman, who possesses the manuscript of the
Dante, has published a specimen of no slight merit in
' ' Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteeth Century, " * ' What does Ham-
let mean ?" a lecture delivered in 1855 (printed in Jersey)
would be a remarkable essay if we could suppose Wade to
have been unacquainted with Goethe's criticism in " Wil-
helm Meister," but this is not likely to have been the case.
His acquaintance with modern languages and literature
was evidently expansive. He continued to write until
1871. Some of his later sonnets have been printed by Mr.
Forman in '"Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century." He
died in Jersey, on September 19, 1875.
From the internal evidence of his writings, Wade would
seem to have been a sensitive enthusiast of strong domestic
216 The Wade Genealogy.
affections, but at the same time manly and independent.
He was an advanced liberal in politics and religion. No
author of his time has left less tangible biographic memor-
ial. The only anecdote preserved is Fanny Kemble's testi-
mony to the fortitude with which he bore the failure of
his tragedy. As a poet he is interesting but disappointing.
His poetical feeling is most genuine ; but devoid as he is
of the most elementary notion of form, and, what is more
remarkable, of any gift of spontaneous melody, it is in
general but warmth without light. His efforts to say fine
things too frequently result in extravagance. Occasionally,
however, as in the '■'■Contention of Death and Love,'' marred as
even this is by vicious diction, he kindles for a while into
true lyrical ardor, and shows he has more in him than he
can bring out. His plays are not highly effective, yet in
them he is always the poet, never the mere playwright.
His place in literary history is not unimportant as perhaps
the purest example of the new influences which began to
operate in English literature after the death of Shelley.
One word more as to the Wades settled in Ireland. Since
the publication of Part I. of the Wade Genealogy, the com -
piler has received many letters, some pitying, some vitu-
perative, from Irish purchasers of his book, as to the
existence of a sept of Wades in Ireland's early history.
One genius, presumably an honor graduate of some mono-
hippie and Micktheological institution, has ventured to
waste his invective on the entirety of Chapter I., which he
imagines was manufactured out of whole cloth ! It will interest
such geniuses to learn that the hated Sassenach in taking
the census of Ireland in 1890, was only able to find thirty
persons of the name of Wade dwelling in all Ireland, and
of these, seven dwelt in Ulster, which certainly was English
and Scotch in its settlement. The compiler will endeavor
later to do full justice to those black swans — the autoc-
thonal Irish Wades — in a special compilation entitled "The
History of the McWade, O'Wade and Pat Wade Sept,
deduced from the Earliest Common Informer, the Honora-
ble J. Iscariot ; to which is attached the Irish Bartenders'
David Everett Wade.
(No. 1088. New Jersey.)
Famous English Wades. 217
and Hod-carriers' Directory." For this reverent effort to
do an act of justice to a mystery of the ages, he will en-
deavor to obtain an imprimatur . Till its issue those who
desire to hew Agag in pieces before the Lord in the columns
of sectarian publications, are requested to moderate their
transports, [and taking a feather or two out of the wings
of their eloquence, to place the same in the tail of their
judgment.
Were it desirable to enlarge on the English branch of
the Wade family, ample material could be obtained from
^ 'Musgrave's (9^//?/arv" published .by the Harleian Society.
That indefatigable necrologist chronicled the decease of no
less than 45 Wades of prominence and note, and gives
references to printed accounts of them. But limits of
space forbid and the enumeration of the English Wades
must conclude with several minor pedigrees of Wades from
Herald's Visitations, etc., the balance of the unconnected
and disjointed English Wade material being reserved for
printing in appendix form (if at all) on account of the lack
of . English interest, and the pressing requirements of
American subscribers.
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(No. 386, p. 144.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 225
CHAPTER III.
The Genealogy of Wade of New Jersey and Ohio.
It was a simple but not an ill ancestry, this that turned away from
the sea-coast forever and began the making of another world. It was
the strong-limbed, the bold-hearted who traveled, the weak who
stayed at home. Let us picture for ourselves this first restless Amer-
ican, this West-bound man. We must remember that there had been
two or three full American generations to produce him, this man who
first dared turn away from the seaboard and set his face toward the
sinking of the sun, toward the dark and mysterious mountains and
forests which then eDcompassed the least remote land fairly to be
called the West. Two generations had produced a man different from
the Old-World type. Free air and good food had given him abun-
dant brawn. He was tall, with Anak in his frame. Little fat cloyed
the free play of his muscles, and there belonged to him the heritage
of that courage which comes of good heart and lungs. He was a
splendid man to have for an ancestor, this tall and florid athlete who
never heard of athletics. His face was thin and aquiline, his look high
and confident, his eye blue, his. speech reserved. — Franklin Hough in
The Century Magazine.
Considering and dealing with the various families of
Wade, we now reach the notable and numerous family
of Wade of New Jersey, and afterwards of Ohio, {e) This
branch dates, so far as any researches in American
records can disclose, from. Benjamin Wade, born in 1646,
who came from Jamaica in Long Island, New York,
about 1675, and settled at Wade's Farms or Connect-
icut Farms (now formed into Union Township, but
then in the Township of Elizabeth, New Jersey). Herein-
after will be found a full discussion of his probable ances-
try.
One thing is certain as to this family of the Wades. The
descendants of Benjamin have not only increased and
multiplied in scriptural ^fashion, but have furnished an
honorable quota to the roll of men who have deserved well
(e) It was originally the intention of the compiler to deal with the
Massachusetts branch of the Wade family in Chapter III, as following
in strict chronological sequence the arrivals in America. But the
general lack of interest shown by the living members of this branch,
the hope that examination of some of the English wills may shew the
parentage of Nathaniel Wade, and the far more substantial support
accorded the compiler by the New Jersey family, are responsible for
this change in his plans. The families merely change places, the
Massachusetts branch appearing in Chapter IV.
[15]
226 The Wade Genealogy.
of the republic. This roll of honor is of no small size. It
was an early ancestor, Robert Wade, born before 1727, who
is said to have been captured by the French in the colonial
wars, and died, a prisoner of war, in a fortress of sunny
France, while Annias Wade was also a soldier in the
French* and Indian War, 1759. Nor were these all of the
heroes, as a glanceatNew Jersey's soldiers of the Revolu-
tion will show.
From the New Jersey records, the compiler was enabled,
by the courtesy of the late Gen. William Scudder Stryker,
that genial antiquarian and most efficient Adjutant-Gen-
eral of the State of New Jersey, to present a list of no less
than twenty-one members of the family who were of the
immortal band, fighting for freedom and all that liberty
implied. They range in rank from Major Nehemiah
Wade, who died in the service from exposure, to the
simple private soldier, who enlisted on the first call for
troops, suffered on the prison ships or served in the New
Jersey line until Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown.
Another, and somewhat later member of the family,
Major William Wade, was a prominent officer in the United
States Army in the War of 1812. He was one of the organ-
izers of the present Ordnance Department of the Army,
and his mechanical abilities and investigations won for
him mention in '■'■ Encyclopedia Britannica,'" (Volume XXII,
p. 597). The War of 1812 also brought six other members
of the family to the service of New Jersey, as Captain,
Paymaster, Quartermaster-Sergeant, Corporal or Private.
Then the pleasant places of Ohio began to attract the
Wades and they set out to take their part, and no small
one, in the winning and the building of the great golden
West.
"It was a land of Promise — the bed of a great pri-
maeval lake — where the mound-builders once had erected
their weird fortifications. Then the land stood empty
until in time came Indians, and after the Indians the
French, and after the French the English, each claiming
freehold, and each in turn displaced, till at last, with no
little rumble of wagon wheels and no uncertain sound of
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 227
ringing axe, came the American citizen who," as RolHn
Lynde Hart says " grubbed up roots, chopped down trees,
built a rude cabin of buckeye logs, and set about getting
himself elected President of the United States
. . . Now when I think of the industrial history of the
Ohioans, I ask myself two questions: What kind of a man
came first to conquer the wilderness ? What kind of wil-
derness had that man to conquer ? The kind of man was
a miracle of rugged hardihood, virile, enduring, bellig-
erent. Think of his record in battles! 1812 put every
able-bodied Ohioan in the field. The state sent more
troops to Mexico than any other northern commonwealth.
'Ohio ' is written all over the National Cemetery at Chick-
amauga. Once the Buckeyes disputed the Michigan boun-
dary, and flung an army upon the frontier. In this recent
Cuban business men fought with one another like jungle
beasts for place in the ranks. Nine-tenths of the Ohioans
are for holding the Philippine Islands. Such men as these
loved a fight with the forest; men of lesser fortitude would
never have pioneered. Then, with how brilliant a dramatis
personac that age-long play began. There was first an era
of falling trees. Settlers clad in linsey shirts and buck-
skin trousers, tracked the wild turkey, shot the deer, picked
off the squirrel from the tallest oak, or toiled all day among
stubborn roots, and made merry by night in log huts while
wolves howled at the door. Meantime their wives made
moan with honest Touchstone : 'Ay, now am I in Arden;
the more fool I ; when I was at home I was in a better
place; but travelers must be content.' Then the kind of
land rewarded the kind of man. There followed an epoch
of growing crops. Corn stood glistening on the red ' bot-
toms,' wheat waved in the continual strong winds, vast
fields were brown with the bearded barley. The Buckeye
State was suddenly so filled with good things to eat that
there were not mouths enough to eat them. What with
Jerseymen settling Symme's Purchase, Connecticut farmers
flocking into the Western Reserve, pioneers from Mass-
achusetts taking up the lands of the Ohio Company, Penn-
sylvania developing the Seven Ranges, men from Norfolk
and Richmond peopling the Virginia Military District,
while a nondescript populace assembled in the United
States Military Reserve, the resultant commonwealth still
shows more or less distinct traces of its varied lineage."
The men from the East who laid the foundations of the
five great States which occupy the old North West Terri-
228 The Wade Genealogy.
tory, were farmers and artisans — poor in purse, but rich
in the elements of character. They carried with them the
patient energy which makes farms and cities, and the love
of orderly liberty which builds commonwealths.
" It was by slow and painful steps that the first immi-
grants made their way through the dense forests and
mountains of Pennsylvania, until they reached the Monon-
gahela or Allegheny, and abandoned their wagons for the
rude craft which bore them down the Ohio to plant their
first settlements along its shores. Thus it was that for
nearly thirty years Ohio received the whole volume of
emigration, so that in 1810 it counted a population of 230,
760 — six times that of all the rest of the North West."
Today Columbia, in Hamilton County, Ohio, commemo-
rates on a centennial inscription, Thomas C. Wade, of this
famil}", one of the first boatload of pioneers, landing there
in 1788, and founding the Baptist Church, the first Protes-
tant place of worship organized in the then, new North
West.
Cincinnati honors and remembers her David E. Wade
(1762-1842), a hero of the prison ships, who founded the
first church in that city, lived there half a century, and
saw fully fifty Houses of God grow up around his initial
offering in the service of his Creator. His son, Melan-
cthon Smith Wade (1802-1868) was a [Brigadier-General
of United States Volunteers and an active Union man,
in spite of illness, in those dark days of 1861, when treason
stalked in high places and men plotted against the flag
that made them free.
To this same family belongs a gifted American author
in the person of Mrs. Margaret Deland, famous not only
for her well-known novel ''''John Ward, Preacher" (1888), but
for a number of exquisite stories of New England life.
Lastly and chiefest of all, this family cherishes the
memory of Jeptha Homer Wade, the elder (1811-1890), the
noble-souled philanthropist of Cleveland, Ohio; the pioneer
of Western telegraphy ; and first President of what is now
the Western Union Telegraph Company. His life, as
will be seen from his biography hereinafter printed, was
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 229
V
one grand open book of great deeds well done, while his
unselfish solicitude for the welfare of his fellowmen has
founded monuments more enduring than] bronze in Wade
Park, Cleveland, and upon the buildings and in the bene-
faction rolls of many excellent charities. Of him it was
well said at the time of his decease, full of years and honor,
that the city of his home had been greatly benefitted for
his having lived there. The cool glades of Wade Park,
donated by him to the city of Cleveland, the Orphan
Asylum, located in the handsome fireproof building con-
structed at his expense, are in them.selves lasting memor-
ials of his public-spirited generosity. He was head of the
movement which gave Cleveland the beautiful Lake View
Cemetery, and was President of the commission which
planned, financed and erected the Garfield monument. In
a word, he was a philanthropist, in the truest sense of the
word.
Loyal to the core, as Jeptha Homer Wade was, his son,
Randall Palmer Wade (1835-1876), wore the shoulder-straps
of a Union officer in that most momentous conflict of modern
times. In conclusion, and no one knows this better than
the present compiler, it is Jeptha Homer Wade and his
grandson, Jeptha Homer Wade, Junior, that the Wade
family owe most if not all of the present book. They first
commenced the collection of genealogical data relative to
the family, and to their investigations, the compiler gladly
acknowledges, the entirety of the present chapter is due.
Mention must also be made of Elias Wade, a famous
merchant of old-time New York; of George Washington
Wade, one of those heroes
"Whose wasted figures fill
The patriot graves of a nation,"
and who awaits his Great Commander and the Last
Reveille on the site of the prison pen at Andersonville; of
William Wade of Pittsburg, famed for his efforts towards
improving the breed of man's most faithful friend among
the dumb creation — the dog; and of scores of others duly
commemorated on the following pages, "Who, each in his or
^30 The Wade Genealogy.
her chosen vocation, fought the good fight and proved the
truth of Tennyson's dictum:
'Tis only noble to be good;
Kind hearts are more than coronets
And simple faith than Norman blood.
This brief resume ended, it now remains to unroll the
pedigree of Wade of New Jersey, commencing with Ben-
jamin Wade, the ancestor, and in so doing to discuss
every possible clue as to the birthplace and origin of the
first of this branch of the New Jersey Wade family to
appear on American soil.
The earliest American traces of Benjamin Wade, the
ancestor are to be found in the account of the first settlers
of the town of Elizabeth, N. J., printed ia Hatfield s
''History of Elizabeth" (pp. 172-173). The extract is ver-
batim as follows:
"Benjamin Wade was a clothier. He was, doubtless, of
the family (probably a son) of Robert Wade, who was at
Dorchester, Mass., in 1635, at Hartford, Conn., in 1640,
afterwards at Saybroolc (where, August, 1657, he was
divorced), and finally at Norwich in 1659, where he died in
1682. His first wife remained in England, and Benjamin
may have been her son. He came here (to Elizabeth) not
later than 1675, probably much earlier.
At his first coming, he rented Luke Watson's house and
grounds, which he purchased, March 16th, 1676-7, for ^24.
The same day he bought of Nicholas Carter, for ;^30, pay-
able in pipe staves, his house lot and 40 acres. Twenty
days before he had bought for ;^30, Thomas Pope's house,
house-lot and 60 acres of upland. Less than two years
after, he bought, January 1, 1678-9, of William Hill, his
house and lot. Previous to all this he had received an
allotment of 144 acres He died about 1698."
Thus, as we have seen, Hatfield suggests that Benjamin
may have been a son of Robert Wade of Dorchester, Mass.,
who was at that place in 1635.
Let us test this with the authorities. First, we find
that Savage, in his ''New England Genealogical Dictionary ,''
says, "Robert Wade, Dorchester, 1635, removed to Hart-
ford, where he was admitted freeman in 1645, then he
lived at Saybrook, Conn., where he was divorced from his
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 231
wife, Jane, then in England, after fifteen years of separation.
He then moved to Norwich and was living there in 1GG9."
We find from Blake's ^'■Annals of Dorchester'" (Mass.) that
Robert Wade was one of the first proprietors of Dorchester,
receiving 6 acres allotment in 1660, on the freeman's roll
in 1669 and effecting an exchange of land with one Caleb
Abell in 1677.
Brief and disconnected references to him occur at pp.61,
66, 86, 102, 136 and 205, but throw no light on his ancestry.
A Richard Wade received 20 acres allotment in that town
as early as January 4, 1635.
In the '■'■ Memorial History of Hartford County., Connecticut,''
(Vol. I, p. 264), the name of this Robert Wade appears in
the chapter concerning original proprietors, with the fol-
lowing particulars : — " Robert Wade, Dorchester, 1635,
removed soon to Hartford, where he was one of those who
received land ' by the courtesies of the town ;' his home
lot in 1639 was on the east side of the road to the Cow
Pasture, the one 'sequestered' for John Pierce; he re-
moved to Saybrook, where he was living in 1657, when he
applied for and obtained a divorce from his wife Joan {who
had deserted him for fifteen years and was then in England^. In
1669 he was Freeman in Norwich. His son, Robert Wade,
of Windham, died in 1696."
Miss Caulkins, in her '■'History of Norwich, Connecticut"
supplies the following data as to the family of this Robert
Wade (p. 205): "Wade. The name of Robert Wade is
found at Dorchester, in 1635; a person bearing the same
name was admitted as Freeman at Hartford, in 1640 ; at a
later period it is found among the inhabitants of Saybrook,
and still later at Norwich. All these notices probably
refer to one person. In August, 1657, Robert Wade was
divorced from his wife by the General Court at Hartford
{Colonial Records of Connecticut, Vol. I, p. 301), on the ground
of her refusal for fifteen years to leave England and join
him in the colony. His inventory is dated June. 1682, and
mentions his widow , his son Robert, and his three daughters, Sus-
sannah, Mary, and Elizabeth. Robert M^ade, the younger, married
232 The Wade Genealogy.
in i6pi, Abigail Royce, and is found afterwards at Windham,
Conn., inhere he was admitted Freeman May jo, i6p^."
Now, Benjamin Wade, the ancestor of the New Jersey
Wades, was born in 164G. Let us see what his alleged
father was doing at this date. We have seen from Savage
and other authorities that Robert, of Dorchester, had by
this date removed to Saybrook, after a residence at Hart-
ford, and that in Saybrook he was, in 1657, divorced from
his wife (? Joan) Jane, on the ground of her continuous
residence in England for fifteen years (/. e., from before
1642) and her refusal to join him in America. Therefore,
at the date of the birth of Benjamin Wade, the ancestor,
Robert Wade, his alleged father, had no wife with him and
could not by any possibility havc been the father of the
Benjamin born in 1616. Further, the Robert Wade of
Dorchester, died, as we have seen, at Norwich, Conn., in
1682, leaving a widow whom he had married after his
divorce, a son, Robert, and three daughters, Susannah,
Mary, and Elizabeth; but his will makes no mention of a
son Benjamin, who, if he were the Benjamin settled at
Elizabeth in New Jerse)'^, would have then been alive, inas-
much as Benjamin, the ancestor, did not die until about
the year 1700.
Hatfield's surmise as to Benjamin Wade's ancestry is,
therefore, not only unwarranted by, but directly opposed to
the facts. Now, where could this Benjamin Wade have come
from ? On this point, Onderdonk's ^^ Antiquities of Jamaica,
Long Island''' (1880), informs us that Jamaica was settled in
1656 by colonists from Hempstead, L. I., while according
to S. J. Ahern's pamphlet, Elizabeth, Past and Present
(1879), the settlers at Elizabeth were from Scotland, Eng-
land, New England, and Long Island. The town was
founded February 10, 1664.
We may well assume that the balance of probability is
in favor of an English ancestry, it being supported, not
only by possibility, as shown by these last two extracts,
but by family evidence and tradition.
Colonel Richaed Dean Arden Wade, U. S. A.
(No. 578, p. 197.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 233
As to this last, Mr. William Wade of Pittsburg states
that there is a well settled family tradition that the ances-
tors came from the County of Pembroke in Wales.
The Beebe family records say the North of England, but
this rather refers to the earliest Wades who were said to
have lived at Wade's Gap. in the Roman Wall, and verges
on the era of myth.
The possession of the Welsh motto, " Y fynno Dwy y
fydd^'" is, in itself, very slight evidence of Welsh origin,
though it is fair to say that most careful English inquiries
and searches have failed to find a Benjamin Wade born in
Wales in 1G46, or indeed any Welsh family of that name.
Wade as a name is purely Saxon and not Celtic as the
Welsh were. Still, Wales was in process of subjection in
1646, or practically subdued, and it would be easily possi-
ble for a squire, the father of Benjamin, the ancestor, to be
in Wales guarding a castle under the then existing feudal
system.
It is one of those puzzles as inscrutable as the face of
the Sphinx, and as to its solution we can only say with
Kipling in his ""Conundrum of the Workshops:''
Now if we could win to the Eden Tree, where the Four Great
Rivers.flow
And the wreath of Eve is red on the turf, as she left it long ago
And if we could come when the sentry slept, and softly scurry
through,
By the favor of God we might know as much, as our father Adam
knew.
Lastly, it has been suggested by an English genealogist
that Benjamin Wade, the ancestor, was the eldest son of
John Wade (No. 219) of Kingecrosse, near Halifax, in the
County of York, England, by Mary his wife, daughter of
Anthony Waterhouse of Woodhouse, in the same County.
(As to this pedigree see Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire
in 1665, printed in '■'Surtees Society Transactions^'' [Vol. 36,
p. 32]; recentl)'- and with additions, in " The Genealogist"
[Vol. 13, pp. 112-115], and also, varying, in ''Thoresbys Leeds"
[Vol. 2, p. 153] [ed. of 1816] and as printed ante, pp. 136
and 137.)
234 The Wade Genealogy.
Let us consider the probabilities of this proposition. In
favor of this contention may be urged the fact that Benja-
min, the ancestor, was a clothier by trade, and that Hali-
fax, whence came these Wades of Kingecrosse, was a
clothing center; that John Wade, the suggested father of
the ancestor, Benjamin Wade, is said in the Herald's Visi-
tation, to have died in 1645, or thereabouts, so that Ben-
jamin's birth in 1646 is possible; that the statement in the
Herald's Visitation, that this Benjamin Wade died unmar-
ried, is to be taken as on a par with the usual heraldic in-
accuracy as to any persons who were not actually present
at the visitation; and, further, that there is no proof that
the older Wades of New Jersey did nut follow the example
of many of the wealthier and early colonists in adopting
the coat and crest of the rrtost famous English branch of
the family, without attempting to prove any descent from
the Wades of Kilnsay, whose arms and crest they certainly
used.
On the other hand, it may be urged that the death of
John Wade, about 1645, or in that year, as the pedigree of
Wade of Kingecrosse states, is in itself strong presumptive
evidence against his being the father of Benjamin Wade of
New Jersey, born 1646; that in this pedigree Benjamin,
who is said to have died unmarried, is described as the
eldest son, and as such was certainly born before 1646, as
his parents married on April 6, 1630, and had two other
sons and one daughter, all born before the father's death
in 1645; that Dugdale's Visitation was made in 1666, this
particular pedigree being dated at Leeds, April 4, 1666, so
that those attending the visitation and testifying as to the
family were speaking of living people and of events that
had occurred within twenty years of the visitation; that at
the time of the visitation Benjamin, if alive, would have
been twenty years old, and so old enough to have emi-
grated; that Sir William Dugdale, who was Garter King
at Arras, and the principal Herald of England, had a con-
siderable reputation for painstaking accuracy, and may be
taken to have assured himself of the death of the Benjamin
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 235
named in the pedigree, before inserting the fact as found
and proved at his visitation; that if Benjamin had so emi-
grated, he would most assuredly have noted the fact at a
time when the great emigration of the English to Northern
Virginia was so noteworthy an event. On the whole, while
the suggestion is ingenious, it must be admitted that the
balance of probabilities is against it.
On a question of probabilities it is much more likely that
No. 236, Benjamin Wade {ante, p. 137) (the son of John
Wade and Hannah Milner), is the ancestor of the New
Jersey Wades.
A search of the wills at Trenton has failed, to solve the
problem. It may be, and it is ''a consummation devoutly
to be wished" that some stray Nev^ England will may yet
solve the problem in favor of New England or that, when
in the fullness of time, the English church registers shall
have been rescued by "the art preservative of arts" from
the custody of a fee-exacting clergy, Benjamin's baptism
in England or Wales may be discovered and accord with
family tradition. At present to search over 18,000 parish
registers at 12 cents per year, per register, and 62 cents for
each item found, would tax the purse of a genealogical
Vanderbilt or Astor.
It is only fair to state as in favor of a New England and
possibly Connecticut birthplace for Benjamin Wade, that
most of the early settlers around Elizabeth were New Eng-
landers and many were from Connecticut; that the place
name Connecticut Farms (or Wades Farms) given by the
early settlers to the present township of Union, N. J.
(organized as such 1805) is strongly indicative of origin;
and also that the universal Presbyterian tinge of the early
settlers is also indicative of New England origin.
1,000. Benjamin Wade (/), the ancestor (son of ),
born about 1646; died about 1700.
(/). This Benjamin Wade is possibly identical with Benjamin
Wade No. 336, son of John. (See ante, Part II, p. 137.)
236 The Wade Genealogy.
Married : — Ann (daughter of William Looker) about
1670. She was born in 1649.
Benjamin Wade died about 1700. His widow died July
31, 1737. (The tombstone of Ann [Looker] Wade is extant
in the -churchyard of the Presbyterian Church at Union
[formerly Connecticut Farms], N. J., about 20 feet from
the north-west corner of the church which has been erected
on the site of its predecessor burnt by the British, June
8, 1780. It has the following inscription: "Here lyeth
ye body of Ann Wade, wife of Benjamin Wade deced.
who departed this Life, July ye 31, A. Dom. 1737, &
in ye 88th year of her Age.") Benjamin Wade was a
clothier by trade and came to Elizabethtown, N. J., as
early as 1675, if not earlier, being one of the first
settlers. He appears to have previously resided at Ja-
maica, L. I., New York, whence also came one William
Looker, a brewer, probably the father of Ann Looker, the
wife of Benjamin Wade, the ancestor. (William Looker
was chosen and appointed a member of the Colonial Assem-
bly of New Jersey, December 2, 1695. See Hatfield's His-
tory of Elizabeth, N. J., p, 270. As to Looker family, see
Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. HI, p. 3. Joan Looker,
age 20, was a passenger on the ship Thomas, from Gravesend,
England, to Virginia in 1635. Hotlen's Lists of Emigrants,
p. 127.) Family tradition says that Benjamin Wade came
from the County of Pembroke, in Wales, a statement to a
certain extent supported by the use of the Welsh motto,
" Y fynno Dwyyfydd" (i. e., "What God willeth shall be ")
on the armorial bookplate in the possession of the family,
assuming its origin to be authentic. It is also to be noticed
that while Hatfield, in his History of Elizabeth, is as
prompt to suggest a New England ancestry for William
Looker as he is for Benjamin Wade, family tradition says
that Ann Looker was on the same vessel as Benjamin
Wade, and that on the voyage their acquaintance ripened
into a regard, which resulted in marriage soon after landing.
That Benjamin's stay in Jamaica, L. I., was of brief dura-
tion may be inferred from the silence of the records of that
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 237
town. The riddle of his ancestry is beyond any solution
except that of an accidental discovery in English records.
The most careful American researches and considerable
work in England have failed to provide a satisfactory solu-
tion other than as suggested on previous pages, though, as
will have been seen, the idea of his descent from Robert
Wade of Dorchester is preposterous and beyond belief.
The Records of the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey,
now in the custody of the Surveyor-General at Perth
Amboy, New Jersey, show that for an early settler Benja-
min Wade was an extensive landowner. Under date of
March 14, 1675 (Records, Liber II, p. 19), he obtained a
warrant to the Surveyor to lay out 120 acres of upland and
meadow in the bounds of Elizabethtown. On February 20,
1676, a bill of sale is recorded from Mary, widow of Thomas
Pope and his son John, to Benjamin Wade, in considera-
tion of ^'69. They then conveyed a dwelling house in Eliza-
bethtown with 60 acres of upland and 6 acres of meadow to
Benjamin Wade (Liber I, p. 71). On March 16, 1676-7,
Luke Watson, for ^2-4, payable in good merchantable pipe
staves, sold to Benjamin Wade, his dwelling house and
pightle in Elizabethtown, then occupied by Benjamin
Wade (Liber I, p. 72). On the same date Nicholas Carter
sold to Benjamin Wade for ;^30 a home lot of 4 acres in
Elizabethtown and a frame house thereon, and 40 acres of
upland with all shares in the calf-pastures and in the block-
house (Liber I, p. 73). On the same date the same Nich-
olas Carter also sold another dwelling in Elizabethtown in
the occupation of John Gray, to the said Benjamin Wade
for ^10 (Liber I, p. 73). On November 30, 1676, a patent
was granted Benjamin Wade of Elizabeth, clothier, by
Philip Carteret, Governor; Sir George Carteret and others,
for 144 acres of land in 6 parcels of upland and meadow,
in and about said town, at a yearly rent of one halfpenny
per acre (Liber I, p. 159), in respect of which patent the
Surveyor (Liber II, p. 32) on October 9, 1676, laid out 48
acres in Rahawack swamp, 40 acres in the plains of Cran-
berry meadows, 40 acres on the north side of the branch
238 The Wade Genealogy.
of Elizabeth River, 12 acres at Rahawack, a pightle
late of John Gray of one acre, and 3 acres of Thomas
Moore's meadow. On January 1, 1678, Benjamin Wade
purchased a home lot of 4 acres of William Hill (Liber B,
p. 51). He sold land in Rahawack swamp to Thomas
Moore, on December 20, 1683 (Liber A, p. 329), and in
September, 1684 (Liber B, p. 61), mortgaged 8 acres of
land to Roger Lambert.
On July 26, 1686 (Liber A, p. 407), the Lords Proprietors
of East Jersey conveyed to Benjamin Wade, then described
as a planter, 100 acres of land in Elizabethtown, the war-
rant being dated February 6, 1685 (Liber L, p. 53), and
the survey of John Reid being also of record.
On March 24, 1692-3, he sold to William Miller of East
Hampton (Long Island), 70 acres and 40 acres in Elizabeth,
and 12 acres at Raway (Rahway, N. J.) (Liber F, p. 629).
The oldest record book of Elizabethtown now in exist-
ence is the one referred to in Dr. Hatfield's History of
Elizabeth as " E. Town, book B." It had been missing for
many years until a few years ago, when a capable and in-
dustrious antiquary and local historian, Mr. Ernest L.
Meyer, the City Surveyor of Elizabeth, -discovered it in the
possession of a gentleman in New York, who had purchased
it at an auction. Being unable to recover the book, Mr.
Meyer compromised by making a copy. At page 34 it
contains an allotment to Benjamin Wade of 100 acres,
surveyed February 27, 1699-1700. This plot is situate be-
tween the first mountain and the present city of Elizabeth,
in what is now the township of Westfield, or near it.
Issue: —
1001. EobertWade, b. ; d. Aug., 1766.
1002. John Wade, b. 1688; d. Nov. 16, 1761.
1003. Benjamin Wade, Jr. , b. ; d. 1738.
1003a. (?) — Wade.
1001. Robert Wade (son of Benjamin, 1), born
died at Elizabeth in August, 1766.
Married : — I, Elizabeth (daughter of ).
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 239
Married : — II, Sarah (daughter of ).
Issue: —
1004. EobertWade.
1005. Benjamin Wade, b. abt. 1727; d. May 21, 1760, at
Elizabeth, N. J.
1006. Patience Wade, b. 1736; d. Feb. 9, 1795.
1007. Matthias Wade, b. Sept. 1, 1738; d. Oct. 29, 1739;
infant.
1008. Daniel Wade, d. July, 1793, at Elizabeth, N. J.
1009. Henry Wade.
1010. Daughter, b. before 1760; m. Stephen Brown, Jr.
1011. Daughter, ; m. Cherry.
1002. John Wade (son of Benjamin) , born 1688; died No-
vember 16, 1761.
Married: — Patience (daughter of ), born July
28, 1694; died July 30, 1759.
Issue: —
1012. John Wade, Jr., b. abt. 1720; d. 1767-73.
1013. Aaron Wade, d. April, 1778.
1003. Benjamin Wade, Jr. (son of Benjamin), born ;
died 1738.
Married : , (daughter of Ebenezer Lyon).
Issue: —
1014. Ebenezer Wade.
1015. Mary Wade.
Benjamin Wade, Jr., also obtained lands around Eliza-
beth. In the City Surveyor of Elizabeth's possession is
also a book entitled Town Book of Elizabethtown Purchase and
the Names of the Proprietors of lots under the said Purchase. It
contains the distribution of the land which now forms the
site of the town of New Providence, Union County, and
parts of adjoining counties. At page 47, it refers to Ben-
jamin Wade as owner of Lot 45 of 100 acres, laid out Jan-
uary 20, 1737, and a page 51 , of lot 67 of 100 acres laid out
January 21, 1737-8, these lands being in the Passaic Valley
or neighborhood.
% ■ ■
240 . The Wade Genealogy.
1003«. Wade (son of Benjamin).
Married : .
Issue; —
1016. Samuel Wade, living 1736.
1017. Jonathan Wade, b. abt. 1723.
1018. Joseph Wade, b. abt. 1715; d. 1777.
1019. Abraham Wade, living 1720-1763.
1020. David Wade, b. 1710; d. Jan. 8, 1732.
This suppositious ancestor has been inserted thus, as
these descendants (all tmquesfionably grandsons of Benja-
niin Wade, the ancestor), are found at Elizabeth, N. J.,
occupying lands, formerly the property of the ancestor, at
an early date. The most careful researches have failed to
disclose the name of their parent; indeed, it is not even
certain that they were brothers. There was also an
Annias Wade, who enlisted April 21, 17G1, in Captain Elias
Dayton's company (French and Indian War). The Hessian
destruction of Church records and family Bibles has re-
moved every vestige of evi'dence of this ancestry.
1004. Robert Wade (son of Robert).
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue: —
1021. James Wade, b. Oct. 10, 1730; d. Jan. 4, 1774.
1022. David Wade, b. May 21, 1733; d. Sept. 10. 1779.
1033. Johanna Wade, b. Nov. 6, 1735; d. June 30, 1825.
1024. Nehemiah Wade, b. 1736; d. Oct. 19, 1776.
1025. Matthias Wade, b. Aug. 10, 174?; d. May 25, 1820.
1026. Robert Wade, b. Dec. 14, 1744; d. April 16, 1805, s. p.
1027. Caleb Wade, b. Jan. 2, 1746; d. Feb. 10, 1798.
1028. Abagail Wade, b. Aug. 14, 1749.
1029. EHzabeth Wade, b. Dec. 1, 1753.
Robert Wade was engaged, it is said, as a soldier in gar-
rison at Old Oswego, when it was taken b}^ General Mont-
calm, August 14, 1756, was taken prisoner, and it is alleged,
was taken to France, where he was imprisoned in Pau or
Bayonne Castle, and where he died. His widow survived
him and died at the age of over 90. On the question of fam-
ily tradition, (so dear to the disciples of The Mail and Express
school of genealogy [?]), this case of Robert Wade is a fair
Peyton Lisbey Wade, of Counsel.
(Virginia family.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 241
sample from which one may judge all. Family tradition
makes him a captain instead of a high private. Commis-
sion records in New Jersey archives show no such officer;
family tradition also says he was with Wolte on the Plains
of Abraham (September 13, 1759)^ and was subsequently
taken prisoner at Old Oswego (August 14, 1756), or, as
some variations read, at Fort William Henry (August 9,
^757)- T'he compiler, with access to, and a fair acquaint-
ance with the contents of one of the finest libraries of
colonial Americana in the United States (the late James
Lenox's munificent bequest — intended for scholars — how
lamentably debased and distorted into a fifth wheel for the
Conglomerate Carnegierium, and mostly used by influential
females searching for ancestors, 'who did possess manners),
has been unable to find a shred of evidence that any colonial
prisoners of war, taken by the French, were actually trans-
ported to France. Reason and expedience, (for exchange
purposes), would indicate Montreal as far more probable
for their place of detention.
One finds from The Colonial Documents of the State of New
York, Vol. X, pp 484, 773, 830 and 881, that no less than
1200 s61diers had died of disease at Oswego, between
August, 1755, and August 15, 1756. The surrender itself
included 1100 men of Shirley's and Pepperell's Regiments,
600 militia (of Colonel Schuyler's New Jersey Regiment),
workmen and sailors, 82 women and girls, 2 lieutenants in
the Navy and 3 captains of flyboats. While a decision was
made to send the prisoners to France, there is no evidence of
its being carried into execution. On the contrary, docu-
mentary evidence exists of many of the prisoners being
heid in Canada and thence exchanged.
It may be that a curious letter as to the captivity at
Montreal, of Ensign Simon Wade, of the Massachusetts
family, and which letter, preserved at Tours in France,
has been printed in Notes and Queries as long ago as 1869,
was the genesis of the Pau or Bayonne tradition. The
fact remains that neither printed history nor probability
[16]
242 The Wade Genealogy.
support it. Peace to his ashes and a pest on all such old
wives' tales!
Toward the close of the Revolutionary War, there was an
expectation that the damages committed by the British
armies in their marches through New Jersey would con-
stitute a valid claim against the British government. The
legislature accordingly, by an act passed December 20,
1781, appointed three commissioners in each of the several
counties to take proofs of such claims. These were made
out in detailed lists of property real and personal, des-
troyed or stolen by invading soldiery, which lists] were
sworn to by the persons claiming to have been damaged,
or by his or her legal representatives, and supported by the
affidavit of one other person claiming to have personal
knowledge of the facts. In some cases the commissioners
also took proofs of claims of losses alleged to have been
sustained at the hands of the Continental armies with the
view to presenting them to Continental Congress.
It is needless to say that none of these claims were ever
acknowledged or paid, either by the British or by the
United States governments; but the lists of losses have
been partially preserved and bound and form several vol-
umes. They are of great interest and value, not only
because they indicate very clearly the devastations wrought
by the invading armies, and show the routes taken by
them, but because they indicate in the most vivid manner
the social conditions and circumstances of the persons
whose property was destroyed.
The losses of Elizabeth Wade, widow of Robert, (1004)
are as follows : —
No. 50. Connecticut Farms.
Inventory of the property of the Widow Elizabeth Wade, taken
& deftroy'd by the British troops or their Adherents, in June, 1780,
viz: —
£. S. D.
3 Feather Beds, £12, 10 pr. Sheets, £12 10s, 24 . 10. 0
6 Blankets, £4 10s, 3 Bed spreads 60s, 7 , 10 . 0
2 Chests with Draws 50s, 2 . 10 . 0
2 Worfted Gowns 50s, 1 Drugget Do. 22s M, 3 . 12 . 6
1 Calhco Gown 20s, 1 Double Callico Gown 30s, 2.10.0
1 Durant Do. 17s 6d, 17 . 6
2.
, 15 .
, 0
5.
. 8,
, 0
3 ,
, 14.
, 0
3.
0.
0
9.
0.
0
4.
05.
0
2,
. 3 ,
. 0
8.
, 10.
0
2.
11 ,
, 0
1 .
0.
0
19.
0
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 343
1 Gazel Do. 20s, Oallimanco Quilt 35,9,
12 Petticoats Linfey Woolfey,
1 Blue Broad Cloth Cloak 30.9, Taffety Do, 44s,
1 Camblet long Gown 30.9, 6 Short Gowns 30s,
12 Aprons at 6s, 12 Shifts at 9s,
14 Pr. Stockings £3 10s, 2 Pr. Shoes 15s,
6 Handerchiefs 30s, 2 Dining Tables 13s,
2 Bed-fteads 30s, Cash 40s,
2 Bonnets 15s, 6 Chairs 12s, 12 Pe^rt^ter plates 24s,
3 Bafons 10s, Iron kettle 10s,
1 Small Iron kettle 8s, Brass Do. 7s 6d, Drinking
Pot 3s Qd,
£79 , 15 . 0 [g)
Attefted by Eobert Wade, Henry Wade & Joanna Grummond.
1005. Benjamin Wade (son of Robert), born about 1727;
died at Elizabeth, N. J., May 21, 17G0.
Married : — Deborah (daughter of ).
Is sice: — ,
1030. Jotham Wade, b. abt. 1754; d. Jan., 1804.
1031. Sarah Wade.
1032. Hannah Wade.
1033. EachelWade.
Benjamin Wade died May 21, 1760, at Elizabeth, N. J.
His will, proved at Trenton, N. J. (Book G, p. 275), is as
follows: —
" In the name cf God. Amen The twenty-fourth day of
April, in the three and thirtieth year of the reign of our sov-
ereign, Lord George the Second, by the grace of God, King,
etc., and in the year of our Lord Christ, one thousand
seven hundred and sixty, I, Benjamin Wade, of the Bor-
ough of Elizabeth, in the County of Essex and Province of
New Jersey, yeoman, being under indisposition of body,
but of sound and perfect mind and memory (thanks be to
Almighty God therefore), and calling to mind the uncer-
tainty of this transitory life, do made this my last will and
testament in manner and form following, that is to say:
First and principally, I give, bequeath and recommend my
soul into the hands of God, who gave me my being, and
my body I commit to the earth to receive a decent Chris-
tian burial, and as touching the distribution of such tem-
{g) This statement of loss supplies the important and hitherto
unknown information of the name of Henry Wade's widow, and also
that his daughter Johanna Wade (No. 1023), married Grum-
mond.
244 The Wade Genealogy.
poral estate as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me, I
dispose of the same as folio weth, videlicet. Imprimis^ my
will is, and I do hereby, ordain that all such debts as I
shall justly owe at the time of my death, shall be well and
truly paid in convenient time after my death. Item : I do
hereby authorize and impower my executors hereinafter
named and appointed to sell all my buildings, lands, tene-
ments and hereditaments, as also all my moveable estate,
and the moneys arising by such sale I dispose of as follow-
eth. Item : I give and bequeath unto my loving wife, Deb
orah, the one equal third part of all my whole estate (my
just debts being first paid out of the same), to be at her
sole dispose forever. Itetn : I give and bequeath unto my
son, Jotham Wade, the sum of one hundred and fifty
pounds, to be paid to him when he arrives at the age of
twenty-one years, /tern : All the remainder of my estate
(which is not above disposed of) I give, to be equally
divided to and among my three daughters,, namely, Sarah,
Hannah and Rachel, to be paid to them as Ihey shall sev-
erally arrive at the age of eighteen years, or if they or any
of them shall happen to be married before they arrive to
that age, then to be paid on their marriage day. /iem :
The use or interest of the money above given to all my
children I leave to be laid out at the directions of my exec-
utors herein named and appointed in order to educate and
bring them up in a decent and Christianljke manner.
/fern : I make, ordain and appoint my trusty and well-
beloved friend. Timothy Whitehead, Esquire, and my be-
loved brother, Daniel Wade (No. 1008), the joint executors
of this my last will and testament, and T do revoke, nullify
and make void all former and other wills and testaments
by me in any manner of ways heretofore made and de-
clared, hereby ratifying and confirming this to be my last
will and testament and none other.
" (Signed) BENJAMIN WADE.
" Witnesses: James Colie, Samuel Thompson, Jotham
Clark. Jr., John Wade, Jr. (No. 1012)."
On May 20, 1773, James Carpenter of Elizabeth was
appointed guardian of Jotham Wade (No. 1030), during his
minority. (Trenton Records, Book K, p. 451.)
1006. Patiknce Wade (daughter of Robert), born 1736;
died February 9, 1795.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 245
Married: — Josiah Woodruff, born 1724; died July 21,
1790.
Issue : —
1033a. Daniel Woodruff, b. 1774; d. Feb. 1, 1793, aged 19.
1008. Daniel Wade (son of Robert), born ; died July
1793, at Elizabeth, N. J. He was a private in the
Essex county militia in the Revolution.
Married: — I, Elizabeth (daughter of ); died
December 4, 1758, aged 39.
Married: — II, Temperance (daughter of ).
Issue: —
1034. Amos "Wade, b. abt. 1740.
1U35. Daniel Wade, Jr., b. June 10, 1753; d. Sept. 9, 1821.
1036. Benjamin Wade, b. 1759; bur. Oct. 11, 1812; drowned.
1037. Moses Wade, b. abt. 1760; d. after 1810.
1038. Jacob Wade, b. Feb. 25, 1762; d. Oct. 15 (or 17), 1828.
1039. Robert Wade, b. Oct. 23, 1766; d. July 18, 1799.
1040. Timothy Wade.
1041. Patience Wade, m. Caleb Wade, Jr., No. 1086.
1042. Temperance Wade, m. David Bonnell, Nov. 21,
1762 (?)
1043. Esther Wade, m. David Baker.
Daniel Wade was appointed guardian of Sarah, daughter
of Stephen Brown, Jr. (husband of No. 1010), August 13,
1759 (Trenton Records. Book C, p. 94). His will is dated
July 9, 1793; proved July 25, 1793 (Trenton Records, Book
33, p. 192). It mentions those of his children then alive.
At the time of the Revolution this Daniel Wade was prac-
tically the head of the family, and was an extensive land-
owner at Connecticut Farms (now Union, N. J.). He is
found m possession of much property that was originally
granted to Benjamin Wade_the ancestor; in fact, his prop-
erty practically surrounded the present church, graveyard
and parsonage at Union. At Daniel Wade's death there
was a grand division of his property among his six sons
and two daughters.
Daniel Wade's losses in the Revolution were as follows: —
No. 52. Connecticut Farms.
Inventory of the property of Daniel Wade taken & destroy'd by
the British troops or their adherents on 7th of June in the year
1780, viz: —
246 The Wade Genealogy.
House, new part of stone, 30 feet by 22, Story &
half high, old part 24 by 34, Story k half high, £260 . 0.0
Old Barn 34 by 22, Covered with Shingles, 20 . 0.0
Weeving Shop, 16 by 16, 6. 0. U
Corn Houfe, 12 by 16, Covered with Straw, 8 . 10 . 0
Still Houfe, 24 by 20, Covered with Shingles & 2
Story high, 75 . 0.0
20 Barracks & Hovels 40.?,. , 2.0.0
1 Barrel Still damaged £14, 2 Cifterns contain-
ing llObar'l £12, 26 . 0 . 0
7 Iron bound Hogsheads & 80 Barrels, 7 . 6.0
8 Dry Hogsheads & 12 Barrels, 1 . 16 . 0
7 Bufh's buckwheat 21s, 8^ Bafh's Wheat 28s, 2 . 9.0
4 Do. Shell'd Indian Com 18s, Bufh'l Rye 5s, 1.3.0
2 Looms in Value, 8 . 10 . 0
6 Reeds & Gears from 40 to 25, 4 . 10 . 0
New Spooling Wheel 12s, Swifts 5s, Warp bars 16s, 1 . 13 . 0
3 Set of Spools at 6s, 3 Shuttles 6s, 1.4.0
Gum Cupboard & Black Walnut Cafe with Draws, 10 . 0.0
Gum Cheft with Draws 40s, Gum Cupboard Small 20s 3 . 0.0
Gum Oval Table 40s, Gi;m Square Table 25s, 3.5.0
Table 15s, Banifter back Chairs, yi Doz. at 8s, 3.3.0
9 Common Chairs at 4s, 4 Duch Wheels at 24s, 5 . 0.0
Great Wheel 15s, pr. Wool Cards 4s, 0 . 19 . 0
Smoothing Iron 8s, Iron Pot 12s, 0 . 15 . 0
Teakettle containing 7 Quarts 28s, 1 . 8.0
Warming Pan with Copper bottom 28s, 1 . 8.0
5 Pewter Platters 30s, 1.10.0
5 Do. Plates, 5 Bafins & Iron ware to amount, 2 . 1 . o
Cafe of knives & forks 7s, 3 Cedar Wafh tubs 83s, 2 . 0.0
5 Cedar Pails at 36s, 5 Piggins at 2s, 1.7.6
4 Milk Vefsels at 3s, 10 Milk Bowls at 2s, 1 . 12 . 0
Large bread tray 4s. 2 Cedar Dying tubs 10s, 0 . 14 . 0
Cedar Churn 8s, Cedar tub with 22 Gall. Soap 40s, 2 . 8.0
Soap fat sufficient for barrel soap 10s, 0.10.0
10 lbs. Candles 10s, 25 lbs. Tallow 25s, 1 . 15 . 0
1 Large fat tub & 2 Butter tubs 14s, 0 . 14 . 6
Large Stone Pot 3s, 5 Jugs 10s, }4 Gall. Tin
Measure 16s, 0 . 14 . 0
Quart Meafure seal'd 86s, Pewter Pot 36s, Wool
Comb 20s, 1.7.0
Hatchet 15s, 3 Hammers 6s, 4 Gimlets 2s, Hand
Saw 10s, 1 . 13 . 0
2 Adzes 8s, Ox Chain 10s, Breft bit with 6 other
bits &c. 10s,
1 Drawing knife 4s, 2 Guns & Bayonets 60s,
3 Sythes 21s, 3 Wh'isk brooms 30s, Whifk for
30 Brooms 15s,
80 lbs. Wool at 26s, 50 lbs. Flax at Is,
2 Large Feather beds £12, Chaff bed of 7 yd.
linen 14s,
4 Bedfteads & 4 Cords £4, 5 Coverlets £6 . 5s,
4 Blankets £4, 8 Sheets at 12s,
8 Pillow Cafes 24s, 2 Bolfters 15s, 6 Pillows 24s,
6 Fine linen Shirts at 16s, 6 Homefpun Shirts at
8 Shifts at 8s, 25 pr. Stockings at 5s,
1 .
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7 Pr. leathern Breeches £4 . 18s, 2 Watch Coats £4, £8 . 18 , 0
2 Coats £4, 1 Long double Calllco Gown 50s, 6 . 10 . 0
1 Long Striped linen Gown 25s, 2 pi . Dimity-
breeches 20.9, 2. 5 .'0
1 Pr. Breeches 10s, 8 Petticoats at 10s, 4.10.0
8 Short Gowns 48s. Short Scarlet Cloak 25s, 3 . 13 . 0
6 Check'd Aprons 30s, 6 Handerchiefs 36s, 3 . 6.0
500 Kails at 30s pr. Hund. 7 . 10 . 0
Set of Callico Curtains £5, 3 twill'd Table Cloths 24s, 6 . 4.0
5 Towels, 7s 6d, 0.7.6
3 Swine Weight 200 each £9, 5 shotes wt. 70
each, £5 . 158, 14 . 15 . 0
3 Calves 3 months old £4 . 10s, 14 sheep at 15s, 15 . 0.0
38 Geefe at 2^ 20 Fowls at Is, 4 . 16 . 0
41 yds. new linen, 6 . 3.0
9 lbs. 4yard'd linen 36s, 3 laree sides Sole leather 75s, 5 . 11.0
Flax Break I2s, Large & small Bible with margin 30s, 2 . 2.0
Watts' Sermons, Pfalms & Hymns 19s, 0 . 19 . 0
Grey's Sermons, Dodrige's Works & Sunday-
books 36s, 1 . 16 . 0
200 Pofts for fence, 2 . 10 . 0
£636 . 14 . 6
Attefted to by Daniel Wade & Daniel Wade, Junr.
1009. Henry Wade (son of Robert).
Married: (daughter of ).
Issue : —
1045. Patty Wade, m. Aaron Ball.
This Henry Wade was styled Captain Henry Wade by
family tradition, and may have commanded a company
raised to repel French and Indian invaders, or, far more
probably, held that rank on the militia, after the peace
with England, though the muster rolls of Colonial New
Jersey show no such officer. He appears as a private in
the Essex county militia in the Revolution.
Henry Wade's losses in the Revolution were as follows: —
No. 53. Connecticut Farms.
Inventory of the property of Henry Wade taken & deftroyed by
the Britifh troops or their Adherents on 7th of June, 1780, viz.- —
£ s. D.
15 yds. Homefpun Linen 45s, 6 Fine Caps 24s, 3 . 9.0
4 pr. Women's Stockings at 5s, 2 pr. Mens Linen
Do. 16s, 1 . 16 . 0
2 Pr. Men's Woollen Stockings 10s. 0 . 10 . 0
1 Pr. Worfted Do. 8s, 2 Linfey Woolfey Short
Gowns 10s, 0 . 18 . 0
6 Callico Short Gowns 10s, 2 Fine Sheets 30s, 2.0.0
248 The Wade Genealogy.
£ S. D.
4 Pr. Sheets £5, Defk Damaged 20s, 6 . 0.0
40 Continental Dolls, 68s, Hone & 2 Kazors 6s, 0 . 12 . 8
Cheft broken & Lock 5s, 0 . 5.0
1/2 Set Curtain Callico 20s, 1 . 0.0
1 Callico Gown 20s, Fine Holland Apron 10s, 1 . 10 . 0
2 Fine Handkerchiefs 12s, 1 Silk Handk'f 7s, 0 . 19 . 0
6 Womens Caps 20s, f j-d. New Taffety 10s, 1 . 10 . 0
1 Silk Bonnet 6s, Fine Lawn Handker'f & Lace 20s, 1 . 6.0
1 Small Shirt 4s, 2 Cambric Handkerchiefs 14s, 0 . 18 . 0
2 Check linen Handkerchiefs 8s, 0.8.0
3 Pr. "Women's Stockings 12s, 10 Women's Capes 30s, 2 . 2.0
1 Pr. Silk Gloves 7s, 2 Pr. Gloves lis, part Linen, 0 . 18 . 0
3 Punch Bowls & 4 Glasses 8s Qd, 0.8.6
1 Copper Tea kettle 15s, Iron Pot of 6 Gall. 15s, 1 . 10 . 0
1 Pewter Teapot & small Brass Kettle 14s, 0 . 14 . 0
2 Pewter Quart Pots 9s, 3 Point Bafon 3s, 0 . 12 . 0
1 Quart & 1 Point Bafon 4s Qd, three Gall. Knot
Bowl 8s, 0 . 12 . 6
3 one Gall. Knot Bowls 12s, 14 White Wood
Bowls 21s, 1 . 13 . 0
3 one Quart Knot Dishes 3s, Churn 6s, 5 Pails
Cedar 17s 6d, 1.6.6
2 Oak Pails 5s, Large Stone pot 4s, 2 Earthen
pots 4s, 0 . 13 . 0
2 Chairs 6s, 2 small wheels Damaged 20s, Crofs-
cut Saw 30s, 2 . 16 . 0
1 Iron Shod Shovel 5s, Spade 7s, 1 Reed 34 8s, 1.0.0
Weft India Cane 6s, Sword Silver Wafhed 20s, 1 . 6.0
40 Panes Glafs 7 by 9 20s, 2 twelve light Safhes 12s, 1.12.0
1 Calf 20s, 14 Fowls 14s, 20 lbs. Bacon 13s Ad, 2.7.4
40 Rails 13s id, Large Book of 700 Pages 20s &
Psalm book, 1 . 16 . 4
1 Trunk 7s, Bond in value £20, a note of hand £5, 25 . 7 . 0
Attested to by Henry Wade & Nathan Tichenor.
£69 . 15.10
1012. John Wade, Jr. (son of John), born about 1720;
died 1767-1773.
Married : — Sarah (daughter of Jos. and Elizabeth
[Woodruff] Potter) about 1750.
Issue: —
1046. Eli Wade, b, March 2, 1754; d. Nov. 4. 1802.
1047. Rachel Wade.
1048. Jane Wade
1049. Lois Wade,; m. Bockorn; d. Aug. 9, 1836,
Springfield.
1050. Matthias Wade,
Benjamin F. Wade.
(New Jersey family. )
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 249
1013. Aaron Wade (son of John).
Married: — Jemima (daughter of David Day); he
died April, 1778.
Issue: —
1051. (?) none.
The will of Aaron Wade, dated January 26, 1778, is recorded
at Trenton (Book 20, p. 258). It was proved April 23,
1778, mentions his wife Jemima, leaves legacies to Eli
Wade (No. 1046), Rachel Wade (No. 1047), Jane Wade
(No. 1048), Lois Wade (No. 1049) and Matthias Wade (No.
1050), also to Jemima Maxwell and Abigail (daughters of
William Maxwell), and to Matthias Potter's children. See
hereon Littell's Passaic Valley Settlers, pp. 115, 279, 333.
1014. Ebenezer Wade (son of Benjamin, Jr.).
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue : —
1052. (?)
1016. Samuel Wade (son of Wade and grandson of
the ancestor Benjamin Wade).
Married : (daughter of ).
Issue : —
1053. Noahdiah Wade, b. March 17, 1744 ; d. Jan. 23, 1828.
1054. Mary Wade.
1055. EHzabeth Wade.
In 1736, Samuel Wade owned and lived on a farm
originally the property of Benjamin Wade.
1017. Jonathan Wade (son of Wade and grandson
of the ancestor Benjamin Wade), born about 1723.
Married: — Dorothy (daughter of Wells),
about 1746.
Issue : —
1056. Jonathan Wade, Jr., b. abt. 1749; d. after 1801.
1057. Patience Wade, b. abt. 1751; d. abt. 1831.
1058. Nathaniel Wade, b. abt. 1753; d. Sept., 1785 (?)
1059. Henry Wells Wade, b. June 6, 1748; d. Feb. 24, 1823.
250 The Wade Genealogy.
1060. Obadiah Wade. d. after 1801.
1061. Abner Wade, d. after 1801.
1062. Dorothy Wade, b. 1763 ; m. Aaron Burnet.
1063. Benjamin Wade. b. Aug. 29, 1704; d. March 22, 1829,
in New York; lived in Orange Co., N. Y.
All the children but Benjamin settled at Canoe Brooks
(now Northfield). N. J.
1018. Joseph Wade (son of Wade, and grandson of
the ancestor Benjamin Wade), born about 1715;
died 1777.
Married: — I, Sarah Searing (daughter of ),
before 1740.
Issue: —
1064. Andrew Wade, b. 1740; d. Jan., 1781, of consumption,
at Morristown, N. J.
1065. Simon Wade, b. Sept. 15, 1749, at Springfield ; d.
Sept. 21, 1817.
Married .-—11, Phebe (daughter of ), about 1753.
Issii,e : —
1066. Sarah Wade, b. July 2, 1754 ; m. abt. 1775, Nathaniel
Wade, her cousin.
1067. Hannah Wade, b. Aug. 29, 1756.
1068. Stephen Wade, b. Aug. 26, 1759.
1069. Joseph Wade, b. Oct. 16, 1761 ; d. at Hanover, N. J.,
Feb., 1818.
1070. Phebe Wade, b. April 24, 1765; d. Dec. 8, 1848; b.
probably at Northfield.
1071. Abigail Wade, b. Jan. 5, 1768. Either Abigail or
Hannah Wade m. a Titchnell.
Joseph Wade's will, dated September 13, 1776, and
proved at Baskingridge, N. J., is recorded at Trenton
(Book 18, p. 220), and is as follows: —
"In the name of God amen. Joseph Wade of the Boro
of Elizabeth in Essex County in the Province of New
Jersey, Yeoman, being weak in Body but of sound mind
and memory Blessed be God do this thirteenth day of
September in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and seventy six make and publish this my last
will and testament in manner and form following that is
to say Imprimis I commend my Soul unto the hands of
Almighty God who gave it me and my Body to the Earth
from whence it came in hopes of a Joyful resurrection
through the merits of Savior Jesus Christ and as for that
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. . 251
worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me
with r dispose thereof as followeth and first my will is that
all my Lands and Tenements rights to Lands or Meadows
Goods and Chattels shall be sold at the Discretion of m.y
executors hereafter to be named Either the whole or in
•part as they shall think best. Item my will is that after
my just debts are p'd the money arising from the sale of
my Lands etc shall be divided to my widow and children
at the Discretion of my Executors as near to Justice and
Equity as may be Lastly I ordain and appoint my Beloved
Wife Phebe Daniel Wade my son Andrew and Hezekiah
Thompson all of the Borro: aforesaid Executors of this
my last Will, and testament In Witness whereof I the said
Joseph Wade have set my hand and fixt my seal the day
and year first above written.
JOSEPH WADE [seal]
Witnesses David Meeker, John Scudder, Hannah Sear-
ing. Proved at Baskingbridge February 12, 1777.
William Livingstone Jr. Surrogate. Charles Pettit
Registrar "
Joseph Wade served as Wagon Master in the Wagon
Master General's department of New Jersey militia in the
Revolution.
1019. Abraham Wade (son of Wade, and grandson
of the ancestor Benjamin Wade).
Married : — Nancy (daughter of ).
Issue: —
1073. Phoebe Wade, b. 1757 ; d. June 4, 1759.
Abraham Wade died before February, 1778, and his
widow, described as of Mendham, N. J., married John
Bostedo, February 13, 1778.
Abraham Wade witnessed a will in 1720, at Elizabeth-
town, and 1763 was living at Connecticut Farms.
1020. David Wade (son of Wade, and grandson of
the ancestor Benjamin Wade), born 1710.
Married : (daughter of ?)
Issue: —
1073. — (?)
252 . The Wade Genealogy.
Oavid Wade died January 18, 1732, and was buried in
the Presbyterian churchyard at Union, N. J., beside his
grandmother, Ann, the wife of Benjamin Wade. The
broken gravestone exists 1902.
1021. James Wade (son of Robert), born October 10, 1730;
died January 4, 1774.
Married : — Hannah Hinman in 1754 (she born Sep-
tember 4, 1731, and died June 9, 1792).
Issue: —
■ 1074. A son, died in infancy.
1075. Phebe Wade, b. May 4, 1756 ; d. unm. April 15, 1777.
1076. Jonas Wade, b. Sept. 4, 1757 ; d. Augr. 19 (9?), 1819,
1077. Hannah Wade, b. Nov. 29, 1759; d. Jan. 22, 1S17.
1078. James Wheeler Wade, b. June 21, 1760 ; d. Oct. 8,
1828.
1079. Isaac Wade, b. Feb. 19, 1763 ; d. Sept. 14, 1809.
1080. Sarah Wade, b. Nov. 4, 1764; d. Oct. 30, 1800.
1081. Elias Wade, b. Feb. 26, 1767 ; d. April 27, 1844 ; bur.
28, infirmity.
1082. Uzal Wade, b. Nov. 80, 1768 ; d. Nov. 80, 1828 ; bur.
Dec. 1.
1083. Robert Wade, b. Jan. 6, 1771; d. March 15 (25?) 1829.
1084. Elizabeth Wade, b Sept. 6, 1772 ; d. Nov. 10, 1776,
unm.
1085. Nehemiah Wade, twin to 1084, d. March 13, 1858, bur,
15 ; old age.
1022. David Wade (son of Robert), born May 21, 1733;
died September 10, 1779.
Married : — I, Phebe (daughter of Ball), born Oc-
tober, 1731; died November 10, 1759.
Issue : —
1086. Caleb Wade, Jr.
1087. Noah Wade, b. Oct. 13, 1768 ; d. April 6, 1804.
Married : —II, Sarah (daughter of Everett), born
1721; died October 24, 1764.
Issue : —
1088. David Everett Wade, b. Feb. 22, 1763 ; d. July 22,
1842 ; moved to Cincinnati, Ohio.
1089. Phebe Wade (prob. by first wife).
Married : — III, Rhoda (daugtiter of Magie), born
1744; died November 27, 1819.
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Issue : —
1090. Ezekiel Wade, b. July 39, 1770 ; d. Aug. 7, 1847 ;
moved to Fort Washiugton, on the Ohio River.
1091. Sarah Wade, b. Oct. 17, 1766 ; d. Nov. 23, 1839.
1093. Job Wade, b. March 8, 1777 ; m. Mary Weeks, Oct.
19, 1838.
1093. Susan Wade, b. Feb. 18, 1775 ; d. Jan. 38, 1794.
1094. Rhoda Wade, b. Oct. 17, 1773 ; d. Aug. 3, 1791.
1095. Henry Wade, b. May 4, 1779 ; d. March 18, 1782, unm.
The will of David Wade is dated September 10, 1779,
and is recorded at Trenton (Book 22, p. 1). It was proved
September 16, 1779, at Newark; mentions his wife Rhoda,
and divides his estate into ten equal parts for his herein-
before mentioned children.
David Wade's losses in the Revolution were as follows: —
No. 31. Connecticut Farms, 38th May, 1789.
Inventory and apprifal of the Property of^ Rhoda (Magie) Wade,
widow of David Wade of Connecticut Farms, deceased, taken, burnt
and deftroyed by ttie Britifh Army or their Adherents, on the 7th
Day of June, 1780.
1 DweUing houfe, 40 by 30, two Stories high, £400 . 0.0
1 Shoemaker's Shop, 35 . 0 . 0
1 Barn, 15 . 0.0
4 Feather Beds, 18 . 0.0
1 Defk, 1 . 10 . 0
3 Linen and one Woollen Wheels, 4 . 10 . 0
1 Spooling Wheel, 8 . 0
1 Large Brafs Kettle, 3 . 0.0
3 Tea Kettles, 1 . 15 . 0
1 Saddle and bridle, 3 . 0.0
1 Large Iron Kettle, 1 . 6.0
1 Clock, 4 . 10 . 0
1 Large Looking Glafs, 5 . 0.0
150 pair of Men's Shoes, 60 . 0.0
1 Large Dining Table, 3 . 0.0
1 Round Table, 16.0
2 Small Tables, 1.7.0
1 Gum Cupboard, 3 . 0.0
9 Bannifter Back Ctaii'Si 3 . 0.0
9 Common "do. 1 . 16 . 0
1 Low Cheft, 1 . 0.0
1 Warming pan, 10 . 0
3 Mufkets, 3 . 15 . 0
A Beaufit full of Earthen & Tea ware, 1 . 0.0
1 Small Looking Glafs, 16 . 0
6 Large Pewter Platters, 3 . 0.0
18 pewter plates, 3 . 5.0
4 do. Batons, 14 . 0
1 Sett of Shoemaker's Lafts, 1.0.0
3 Setts of Shoemaker's Tools, 3 . 0.0
1 Sett of Silver Tea Spoons, 1 . 5.0
6 Coverlids, 9 . 0.0
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254 The Wade Genealogy.
6 Blankets,
3 Bed Quilts,
2 Setts of Curtains,
12 pair of Sheets,
14 yards Homefpun Brqad Cloth,
20 yards Striped Linen,
66 yards of Brown Linen & Tow Cloth,
4 Diaper Table Cloths,
10 pair of pillow Cafes,
1 Cedar Lye tub,
10 Barrels.
2 Cedar Wafh Tubs,
1 Barrel of Soap,
4 Iron pot,
60 Sides of Tanned Leather,
1 pair of Silver Buckles,
4 Good Bedfteads,
1 Gum Kocking Cradle, Iron Shod,
1 Hog, weight 180 lbs.,
12 Cords of Bark Burnt,
the half of a Barn Burnt, 36 by 28,
the half of a Bark houfe, 36 by 24, Bark Wheel, &c.
the half of a Beam house,
£761 .18.6
The above attefted to by the oaths of Ehoda Wade and Robert
Wade, Esquire.
1023. Johanna Wade (daughter of Robert), born Novem-
ber 6, 1735; died June 30, 1825.
Married : — Grummond.
Issue: — .? (Qntraced).
This marriage appear.s from Johanna Grummond attest-
ing her mother, Elizabeth Wade's, claim for losses in the
Revolution.
1021:. Nehemiah Wade (son of Robert), born 1736; died
October 19, 1776.
Married: — Abigail (daughter of Mulford);
she was born 1740; died March 1, 1783; buried
March 3.
Issue : —
1096. Nehemiah Wade, d. after 1822.
1097. Jonathan Wade, b. 1761; d. Sept. 10, 1796; bur. 11,
yellow fever.
1098. Benjamin Wade, b. 1763; d. Dec, 10, 1765.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 255
1099. James Wade.
1100. Mary Wade, m. Benjamin Watkins and lived in
Elizabeth, N. J.
1101. Elizabeth Wade, m. Mr. Tucker; lived Elizabeth,
N. J.
1102. Benjamin Wade, b. probably July 22, 1772; living
1796.
1103. Robert Wade, probably d. young, abt. 1766.
Nehemiah Wade was a Commissary of Military stores
and Second Major in the 1st Essex regiment, New Jersey
militia in the Revolution from July 15, 1776, until he died
in service from exposure. His monument is to be seen
(marked with the bronze marker of the Sons of the
American Revolution) in the Presbyterian grave yard at
Elizabeth. His will, dated July 1, 1776, is recorded at
Trenton (Book 18, p. 28) and was proved at Elizabeth in
1776. It leaves to his son Nehemiah ;^200 and an excellent
college education; to his daughters Mary and Elizabeth
;j^lOO each, and the balance of his estate to his six children,
Nehemiah, Jonathan, James, Benjamin, Mary and Eliza-
beth. His wife Abigail was to have the use of his house
and garden during her life.
1025. Matthias Wade (son of Robert), born August lU,
1742; died May 25, 1820.
Married :- -I, Elizabeth Searing,
Married: — II, widow of McGee, maiden
name Joanna Stewart, married before 1778.
• Jssiie : —
1104. Mary Wade.
1105. Deborah Wade, m. Moses Orilley and had three
children.
1106. John Wade, b. Aug. 30, 1780; d. Jan. 18, 1847.
1107. Elizabeth Wade.
Matthias Wade was a private in the Essex county
militia in the Revolution, and probably a Captain of mili-
tia after the war.
Family tradition has it that a ball from Matthias Wade's
musket knocked a silver cup out of General Knyphausen's
hand as he was drinking water at the battle of Springfield,
256 The Wade Genealogy.
June 3, 1730, causins^ the Hessian General to exclaim :
" The tamned rebels shoot well."
Matthias Wade's losses in the Revolution were as fol-
lows:—
No. 7. Connecticut Farms, 26th May, 1789.
Inventory and appraifal of the property of Matthias Wade,
plundered and destroyed by the Britifh Army or their Adherents at
Connecticut Farms and Springfield on the 80th day of November,
1776, and the 2Hd of April, 1780.
44 Sides of Sole Leather, £64 .0.0
1 Firken of Butter, 2 . 5.9
350 Weight of Flour, 3 . 15 . 0
1 Scarlet Long Cloak £5, 1 Chintz Gown, 6 . 18 . 0
5 Short Gowns, 1 Home Spun Long Gown, 3 . 5.0
1 Callimanco Skirt. 3 Lincey Petticoats, 2.15.6
2 Handerchiefs and 2 Aprons, 1.7.6
1 Broad Cloth Coat and one Jackcoat, 5 . 5.0
2 Shirts and a pair of Stockings, 1 . 12 . 0
1 Gun and one Looking Glaf-, 2.10.0
1 Feather Bed & Bedding £8 . 10 . 0, 1 Ax 8.5 8 . 18 . 0
1 Straw Bed and Bedding, 2 . 10 . 0
350 Weight of Beef, 5 . 5.8
35 Weight of Tobacco, 1 Iron pot, 1 . 7.6
1 Set of Shoemaker's Tools, 2 Lafts, 2 . 5.0
June 23d, 1780.
1 Fine Broad Cloth Coat and 1 Silk Veft, 6 . 5.0
1 Cotton and 1 Broad Cloth Vest, 2 . 4.0
2 Pair of Breeches almof New, 2.5.0
2 Pair of over Halls, 5 Shirts, 3 . 2.0
1 Fine Shirt, 3 yards of Linen Cloth, 16 . 6
1 pair of Thread and one pair of Worftead Stockings, 17 . 0
1 Camblet Cloke and' one wool hat, 1.11.0
1 Linen and one Woollen petticoat, 1 . 2.0
5 Homefpun and Five Englifh Blankets, 6 . 10 . 0
2 Coverlids, 2 Sheets, 8 . 5.0
2 Tea Tables, 2 Tea kettles, 2 . 14 . 0
1 Reel and 4 Chairs, 17 . 0
1 Pewter Quart pot, 2 pewter Basons, 10 . 0
72 Panes of Window Glass, 1 . 16 . 0
2 Sets of Shoemaker's Tools, 2.5.0
12 Hens, 12 . 0
500 Weight of Pork, 14 . 13 . 8
400 Weight of Flour, 4.8.0
£169 . 11 . 8
The above attefted to by the oaths of Matthias Wade, Jonaa
Wade, Efquire and David Whitehead, Junr.
Among the traditions of the Revolution, the following-
are chronicled in the memory of some of the aged at this
place (Connecticut Farms).
A house at Lyon's Farms, about three miles distant, was
Captain William Wade, H. M. 38tli Regiment,
(No. 562, p. 195. ;
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 257
taken possession of during the war by twenty-five Hessians,
and made a place of rendezvous. Three daring men, viz. :
Matthias Wade, Barnabas Carter and — Morehouse,
determined to surprise and route them. The night was
chosen and their plan laid. Wade was to shoot the sentinel
in front of the house, the report of whose gun was to be
the signal for the other two to raise a shout back of the
dwelling and fire into the windows. The plan was com-
pletely successful. The terrified Hessians, supposing they
were surrounded by .superior numbers, fled will all possible
speed, leaving their guns and ammunition and other
articles of value to their, victorious enemies.
At another time, five Hessians obtained possession of a
house near the present residence of Mr. Jonathan Mulford,
in the south part of the township. No sooner was it known
than the dwelling was entered by Jonas and Matthias
Wade and Elijah Terrill. The latter was immediately
clinched, and would have been overcome by the superior
strength of his antagonist, but for the timely assistance of
one of his comrades, who ran the Hessian through with his
bayonet. The remaining four were then taken prisoners.
About a quarter of a mile east of the meeting house the
road is crossed by a small brook, on the other side of which
the ground is considerable elevated. On the western em-
inence about sixty of the people planted themselves with
only muskets, resolved to dispute the passage of the British
army on their march from Elizabethtown to Springfield;
and so well did they make their stand' that for several
hours they kept the enemy at a stand and prevented their
progress until their ammunition compelled them to retreat.
At this time, as the army was approaching the meeting
house, a Mr. Ball had stationed himself behind a shop at
the foot of the church hill, across the road, to watch the
movement of the enemy. As he was looking from his
hiding-place, to see how near they had approached, a ball
passed through his head and brought him to the ground.
On the opposite side of the street, directly in the rear of
the store of Mr. Wade, Abel Hays and James W. Wade
[17]
258 The Wade Genealogy.
were secreted behind a shoemaker's shop, and were eye
witnesses to the fate of their friend . Unwilling to see him
suffer without affording assistance, Mr. AVade crossed the
street in the face of the enemy, carried away his wounded
companion under cover of the shop and house behind which
the unhappy Ball had fallen, and bore him to the house
where Mr. Joel Searing now (1852) resides. (From Howe's
New Jersey Historical Collections, 1852, p. 197-198.)
1026. Robert Wade (son of Robert), born December 14,
1744.
Married : — Polly (daughter of Woodruff).
Robert Wade died without issue April 16, 1805. His
widow, Polly (Woodruff) Wade, married Andrew Wilson,
May 27, 1811.
Robert Wade served as a Lieutenant in the 1st regiment,
Essex county militia in the Revolution.
Robert Wade's losses in the Revolution were as follows: —
No. 18. Connecticut Farms, 27th May, 1789.
Inventory and apprifal of the property of EobertWade of Con-
necticut Farms, Burnt, deftroyed and taken away by the Britifh
Army or their Adherents the 7th June, 1780.
1 Dwelling house, 30 by 28, Story & half high,
)
1 Kitchen, 24 by 18,
- £300.
0,
, 0
1 Milk houfe, 20 by 12,
\
1 Currying Shop,
25 ,
. 0.
0
1 Barn,
25.
0.
0
1 Framed Barrack,
3.
0.
0
85 Bushels of Indian Corn,
19.
2.
6
50 Bushels of Buckwheat, " •
7.
10.
0
30 Bushels of Rye,
7.
10.
0
50 Bushels of Oats,
6.
5.
.0
1 Feather Bed,
5.
0.
0
1 Mahogany Teable,
3.
10,
, 0
1 Large Gum Eule Joint Table,
2 ,
, 0
.0
1 Very large Elegant Mahogany Defk,
15.
0.
0
10 Setting Chairs,
4.
10.
0
1 Barrel of Bef t Liver Oil.
6.
0,
0
3 hundred weight of Salt Pork @ 8d,
10.
0.
0
200 weight of Smoaked Hams,
7.
10,
0
100 weight of Smoaked Beef,
3,
, 15 .
, 0-
28 lbs. Venifon,
1,.
8.
0
1 Looking Glafs,
1 .
0,
, 0
24 Sheets,
16.
10.
0
5 Coverlids,
5.
12,
, 6
3 Bed Blankets,
2.
5,
, 0
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 259
8 pair of pillow Cafes,
2 .
0
. 0
3 Bedfteads,
3.
0 ,
, 0
1 Brafs Kettle, very large,
2
. 5,
. 0
1 Small Brafs Kettle,
12,
. 0
1 Iron Kettle,
10,
. 0
8 pewter plates,
1 .
0 ,
. 0
3 Large pewter platters.
1 .
4,
, 0
10 yards of Six yarded Linen,
3 .
0 .
, 6
1 Linen and one Woollen Wheel, ,
2 .
0,
, 0
1 Gold Eing-,
16.
0
6 Currying knives,
3.
10.
, 0
3 Barrels of Flour,
4.
10.
, 0
20 Bushels of Wheat,
8.
0,
, 0
4 Meat Barrels,
1 .
0.
, 0
10 Empty hogfheads,
3.
0.
, 0
20 Barrels,
4.
0.
, 0
50 Sides of Tanned Leather,
50.
0.
, 0
1 Cupboard of the beft Quality,
6,
, 0.
0
1 Barrel of Lampblack, pack'd down,
5 .
0.
, 0
6 Graining Boards,
1 .
16.
. 0
4 Steels,
16 ,
, 0
1 Mufket,
2.
0.
, 0
5 yards of Homefpun Broad Cloth,
2.
5,
. 0
10 Cords of Hickory Wood,
10,
0,
. 0
1000 feet of Whitewood Boards,
3.
10.
, 0
3 Currying Tables,
3.
0.
0
1 Beaver Hat,
2.
10.
0
3 Broad Cloth Coats,
10.
0,
0
5 fine Shirts,
4.
0.
0
3 pair of Plufhand Velvet Breeches,
4.
10 ,
,0
2 pair of Shoes,
1 .
0.
, 0
1 pair of Boots,
1 .
10.
, 0
1 Caftor Hat,
1 .
10 ,
.0
35 pounds of Wool,
4.
7 .
, 6
£631 . 13 . 6
The above attefted by the oaths of Robert Wade, Esquire, and
Caleb Wade.
1027. Caleb Wade (son of Robert), born January 2, 1746;
died February 10, 1798. He lived in New York
City and was a cordwainer, in 1806.
Married : — Phebe (daughter of Thompson);
she born 1758; died September 23, 1839, aged 81.
Issue : —
1108. Rachel Wade, b. Dec. 6, 1773; d. young.
1109. James Wade, b. June 25, 1775; d. young.
1110. James Wade 2d, b. April 4, 1777.
1111. Matthias Wade, b. Aug. 31, 1780; went to some
foreign coi;ntry and was never heard of again.
-1112. Thompson Wade, b. Feb. 21, 1783; d. Dec. 31, 1854.
260 The Wade Genealogy.
1113. Abigail "Wade, b. Jan. 28, 1784 ; d. March 3, 1870.
1114. Eachel Wade. b. July 4, (5?), 1787; d. Aug. 14, 1825;
m. James Wilson Wade (No. 1288),
Caleb Wade's losses in the Revolution were as follows: —
No. 2. Connecticut Farms, 25th May, 1789.
Inventory and Apprifal of the property of Caleb Wade, Burnt,
Detroyed and taken away by the Britifh Army or their Adherents
on the 7th Day of June, 1780.
1 Dwelling Houfe, 36 by 26, well finifhed, £310 . 0.0
1 Dwelling Houfe, 28 by 20, well finifhed, 40 . 0.0
1 Shop, 24 by 16, 30 . 0 . 0
1 Shed. 30 by 14, well Covered with Boards, 5 . 0.0
1 Cow House, 2{h) by U, covered with Boards, 10 . 0.0
1 Framed Barack, 14 ft. Square, boarded all round, 5 . 10 . 0
1 Bee Houfe, 12 by 6, well covered, 1 . 5.0
Timber for fifty pair of wheels, dereft out, @ 46^8, 116 .13.4
■ 3 pair of Cart Wheels, new, 10 . 10 . 0
4 Steel plate Handfaws, 3 Broad Axes, 5 . 8.0
12 Augers, 14 Plains of Different sizes, 6.10.0
4 Chizels, 4 Gouges, 12 files and 6 Gimlets, 1 . 18 . 6
1 Grofs of Bottles, 3 Cafes of Square Bottles, 4.16.0
1 Barrel of Jamaica Spirits, 32 Gallons, 12 . 16 . 0
1 Barrel of Weft India Rum, 31 Gallons, 7 . 0.0
2 Barrels of Strong Beer, 3 . 10 . 0
2 Barrel of Bottleing Syder, 3 . 0.0
1 Large Lye Tub & 3 Cedar pails. 1 . 12 . 0
6 Iron hooped Hogsheads, 30 Sider Barrels, 6 . 15 . 0
4 Beef Barrels, 12 Flour Casks. 3 . 0.0
6 Five Gallon Cags, three Candlesticks, 1 . 7.6
1 Gum Cheft of Drawers & one Low Gum Oheft, 3 . 10 . 0
1 Cedar Churn and twelve Milk Bowls, 1 . 7,0
3 Hives of Bees, 3 , 15 . 0
1 Grind Stone, 2 Spinning Wheels, 4. 6.0
1 Bible, 1 Book of Mr. Whiterield's Sermons & Life, 12 . 0
10 Setting Chairs, 1 Large Trunk, 81b. hogs' fat, 3 , 3.6
1 Set of China Cups & Saucers, f Barrel Soap, 1.18,0
3 Wash tubs and one Beer Anchor, 1 . 0.0
12 Geefe, 24 Dunghill Fowls, 3 . 14 . 0
40 Bushels of Corn, 8 . 0.0
4 Barrels of Cyder, 3 . 4.0
1 Good Beaver Hat 60.9,1 pair Corduroy Breeches 35s, 4 . 15 . 0
1 pair Breeches, 3 pair Trowfers, 1 . 5.0
1 Broad Cloth Coat and 3 Jackcoats, 8 , 3.0
3 fine Shirts part wore, 1 new homefpun Shirt, 3 . 6.0
15 pair Stockings and three pair of Shoes, 5 . 17 . 0
3 Fine Shifts, 1 . 10 , 0
3 Good Cloaks, 3.8.0
1 Bonnet 8,s', 1 Set of Knives & forks, Jersey
maker lis, 1,8.0
(A) My careful and most reliable genealogical agent at Trenton,
Miss Anna M. North, points out that the size of the cow house would
indicate that kine leaner than Pharoah's were stored therein. Prob-
ably an error for 13 x 10.
Wade OF New Jersey and Ohio. 261
4 Long Gowns, 5 . 0.0
6 Short Gowns, !) pair pillow Cafes, 4.10.0
9 pairs of Sheets of Different kinds, 10 . IQ . 0
2 Diaper Table Cloths, 2 Diaper Towels, 1 , 6.0
3 Common Table Cloths @ 6/. _ 18 . 0
1 Barcelona and one Check Silk handerchiefs, 1 . 0.0
1 Great Coat almoft new and 2 Feather Beds, 12 . 0.0
4 Under Beds and one Calico Bedquilt, 4 . 5.0
4 Bedsteads and four Bed Cords, 3 . 10 . 0
5 Coverlids, 6 . 0.0
3 Bed Blankets® 20;, Children's Cloathine: 60;, 6 . 0.0
6 Caps, 1 Lawn handerchief, one Cambric do., 1 . 9.0
1 Clock and one Looking Glafs, 6 . 0.0
1 Cherry Tree Rule Joint Table, 3 . 0.0
1 Gum Table and one Gum Stand, 2 . 8.0
1 Iron Kettle and one Griddle, 1 . 0.0
1 Frying pan, two Iron Skillets, 16 . 0
1 dozen pewter plates and four Basons, 2 . 0.0
6 pork Gammons, 100 weight @ 8d, 3.6.6
100 weight of salt pork, 3 . 6.6
12 gallons of Wine, 3 . 12 . 0
30 lbs. of Smoaked Beef. 15 . 0
1 Lawn Apron, 1 Black Silk do. , 4 Check do. , 2.4.0
1 Set of Callico Curtains, almoft new, 4 , 10 . 0
2 Boy's Coats and two pairs of Shoes, 1 . 4.0
2 Jackcoats and two Shirts, 15 . 0
3 pair of Stockings, two pair Trowfers, 18 . 0
1 Copper Tea Kettle, 16 . 0
1 Oval Gum Table, 1 . 1.0
£718 .5.4
The above attefted to by the oaths of Caleb Wade and Elias
Wade.
1030. JoTHAM Wade (son of Benjamin), born about 1754.
Married : — Elizabeth (daughter of ), she born
1769.
Issue : —
1115, Mary Wade, b. May 28, 1788; d. Nov. 1, 1842; m. John
B. Crane. Issue : son, Horace Crane.
Jotham Wade died in January, 1804. His widow
Elizabeth, married Jacob Searing, July 31, 1803. By her
second marriage she had a son, David Searing, who
removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, married and had issue four
children. Elizabeth (Wade) Searing died April 25, 1814.
On January 31, 1804, Jacob Searing was appointed guardian
of Mary Wade. (Trenton Records, Book 40, p. 421.)
262 . The Wade Genealogy.
Jotham Wade's losses in the Revolution were as fol-
lows : —
No. 23. _ Connecticut Farms, May 28, 1789.
Inventory and Apprifal of the property of Jotham Wade taken
by the British army or their adherents on the 2Bd June, 1780.
1 Good Horfe 3 years old, il2 .0.0
4 Shirts part worn, 2.0.0
£14 . 0 . 0
The above attefted to by the oath of Jotham Wade & Oaptn Mat-
thias Wade.
Jotham Wade was a member of the Lyon's Farms
Baptist Church, in the records of which there are amusing
entries concerning his spiritual backsliding(?) It appears
that " Sister Harrison " suspected Jotham Wade of the
terrible and dangerous heresy of believing that unhapUzed
little babies were not irrevocably, immediately and
irretrievably damned! and had him tried for this awful
crime. "Brother Wade " had the courage of his convic-
tions and defended his proposition. As a result he was
excommunicated by this band of chosen and charitable
saints. There is no evidence that he suffered in purse or
peace of mind or that he had any feeling other than pity
for the ignorance of his prosecutors.
1032. Hannah Wade (daughter of Benjamin).
Married : — John Potter (son of John), see Littell's
Passaic Valley Settlers, p. 333).
Issue : —
1116. Elias Potter, d. age 25, unm.
1117. Susan Potter, d. age 18, unm.
1118. Jotham Potter, Major of militia; m. Kebecca Crane,
dau. of John Crane of Westfield; issue, three
children,
1119. Benjamin Potter, m. Phebe Crane, dau. of John
Crane of Westfield; issue, five children.
1120. John Potter, m. Huldah Crane, dau. of John Crane
of Westfield; issue, dau. Hannah.
1034. Amos Wade (son of Daniel), born about 1740.
Married.— Elizabeth Jewel, April 3, 1763. Both re-
sided at Connecticut Farms.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 263
Issue : —
1121. Abner Wade, b. Dec, 14, 1765; m. Mary Clark.
1123, Stephen Wade, m. Patience, dau. of Caleb Wade.
(1086?)
1123. Amos Wade, never m.; became deranged.
Amos Wade served as a private in the Essex county,
N. J., militia in the Revolution.
His losses in the Revolution were as follov%'s: —
No. 10. Connecticut Farms. 26th May. 1789.
Inventory and appraifal of the Goods and property of Amos Wade,
plundered and deftroyed by the Britifh Army at Connecticut Farms,
on the 7tli day of June, 1780.
21 Bushels of Indian Corn, £ 4 . 14 . 6
19 Bushels Buckwheat, 2 . 17 . 0 .
100 Weight of Pork, ' 8.6.8
1 Large Hog, 200 Weight. 2 . 10 . 0
1 Spring Calf, . 1.5.0
5 Sides of Soal Leather, 6 . 5.0
1 Iron pot and 1 Tea kettle, 1 . 0.0
6 Pewter plates, two batons and two platters, 1 . 16 . 0
2 Bibles, 10 . 0
2 Barrels of Vinegar, 2 . 0.0
2 Spinning Wheels, 2 . 0.0
5 Bed Spreads, 4.0.0
1 Looking Glafs. 10 . 0
2 Beds with Bolsters and Pillows, 6 , 0.0
20 pounds of Linen Yarn, 3 . 10 . 0
1 Cheft of Drawers, 1 . 10 . 0
half Barrel of Soap, five pounds of Candles, 1 . 0.0
2 Water pails, . 6.0
1 Gun, 1 . 10 . 0
20 Geefe, 20 Dunghill fowls, 3 . 10 . 0
Damage done to my Houfe, 3 . 10 . 0
4 Setting Chairs, 8 . 0
Damage done in Wheat and Flax, 1 . 10 . 0
20 pounds of hogs' lard, 11 . 8
1 Sattin Bonnet, 12 . 6
1 Shoat, 15 . 0
3 Shirts @ 10s, 1 pair Cotton Stockings 8.s, 1 . 18 . 0
2 Linen Short Gowns, 10 . 0
60 . 15 . 4
The above attefted to by the oaths of Elizabeth Wade and Benja-
min Wade.
1035. Daniel Wade (son of Daniel), born June 10,
1753.
Married : — Abigail (daughter of Tucker, and
widow of Tucker), born October 30, 1765;
died December 21, 1825.
264 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : —
None.
Daniel Wade died September 9, 1821, leaving his prop-
erty to Daniel Wade Teller, a grandson of his wife, son of
his wife's daughter Fanny Tucker, who married Samuel
Teller.
He was probably a private. in the Essex county militia
in the Revolution.
1036. Benjamin Wade (son of Daniel), born 1759.
Issue : —
Probably none.
Benjamin Wade was drowned; buried at Elizabeth, Oc-
tober 10, 1812.
His losses in the Revolution were as follows- —
No. (■>. _ Connecticut Farms, 26tb May, 1789.
Inventory and apprifal of the property of Benjamin Wade. Plun-
dered and Deftroyed by the Britifh Army or their Adherents, at
Connecticut Farms, on the 7tli June, 1780.
16 yards of four yarded Linen, new, £ 3 . 4.0
6 yards of fix yarded Linen, 1.13.0
1 Home fpun Great Coat, 2 . 10 . 0
1 Broad Cloth Coat, 2 . 10 . 0
1 New Bible and new Spelling Book, 8 . 6
1 Size Stick, 1 pair pincers, 5 . 6
1 Heel Knife, 1 . 0
1 Silk Bonnet, 12. 0
£ 11 . 4.0
The above attefted to by the oaths of Benjamin Wade and Jonas
Wade, Efquire.
At Washington's headquarters, near Morristown, was a
young man (Benjamin Wade, then 20 years of age), so pe-
culiarly fitted for hazardous enterprises, so says family
tradition, that he was relieved from the duties of a private
of militia, and was employed by General Washington to
watch the movements of the enemy. He was provided
with a fleet horse and made many excursions around the
enemy, meeting with several narrow escapes.
1037. Moses Wade (son of Daniel), born about 1760; died
after 1810.
David Trehakne Newton Wade, Esq.
(No. 411, p. 170.)
Wade. OF New Jersey and Ohio. 265
Married : — Mary (daughter of Samuel Headley).
Issue : —
1124. Rebecca Wade, b. Nov. 24, 1788 ; m. Aaron Davis,
May 28, 1814.
1125. Nancy Wade, b. March 27, 1790 ; m. Isaac Smith.
1126. Esther Wade, b. June 18, 1792 ; m. Stephen Howell,
June 4. 1814.
1127. Ehoda Wade, b. Oct. 3, 1793 ; m. Caleb M. Duty,
Jan. 19, 1823 ; d. Auf?. 20, 1849 ; cholera.
1128. Julia Wade, b. Oct. 17, 1797; m. Eev. Henry Hervey,
D.D., Nov. 1, 1831; d. Oct. 3, 1876.
1129. Prudence Wade, b. July 9, 1795; d. young.
1130. Prudence Wade, b. Oct. 11, 1799; d. Aug. 17, 1849 of
cholera ; unm.
1131. Marv Wade. b. June 11. 1801 ; m. Jacob Pierson.
1132. Caroline Wade, b. Sept. 22, 1805 ; m. James H. Pier-
son.
1133. Phebe W^ade, b. Aug. 1, 1803 ; d. young, unm.
1134. Moses Wade, b. Oct. 28, 1807.
1135. Hannah Wade. b. July 19, 1810; m. Anthony Meeker
of Newark, March 6, 1837.
Moses Wade died after 1810./ His widow married Mat-
thias Burnett, March 10, 1827.
1038. Jacob Wade (son of Daniel), born February 25,
1762.
Jkarried: — Sarah Jones, born April 14, 1765; d.
April 22, 1845.
/ssife : —
1136. James J. Wade, b. Oct. 23, 1785.
1137. Jonathan Wade, b. Feb. 5, 1788.
1138. Moses Wade, b. July 2, 1792; Hving in Stafford, N.Y.,
March 16, 1822.
1139. Henry Wade, b. Feb. 1, 1805, in Sangerfield, N. Y.;
1888 lived in Farmersville, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y.
1140. Magdalen Wade, b. Nov. 15, 1783; 1838 lived in
Farmersville, Cattaraugus Co. , N. Y.
1141. Oliver Wade, b. Dec. 10, 1794; d. in infancy.
1142. Oliver Wade, b. April 23, 1802; d. age 22, unm. at
Farmersville.
1143. Joanna Wade, b. Jan. 1, 1800.
Jacob Wade sold his property in New Jersey and moved
to Western New York. In March, 1822, he resided at
Stafford, N. Y. He died October 15 (17?), 1828.
1039. Robert Wade (son of Daniel), born October 23,
1766; died July 18, 1799.
266 The Wade Genealogy.
Married : — Rebecca. Jones, born April 5, 1763; died
December 13, 1841.
Issue : —
1144. Henry Wade, b. Sept. 27, 1789; d. May 25, 1871.
IH.I. Daniel Wade, b. Sept. 15, 1792; d. May 19, 1864.
1146. Elizabeth Wade, b. Jan. 23, 1794; d. Sept. 24, 1874,
unm.
1147. Joanna Wade, b. abt. 1795; d. 1880, Winona, Minn.
104:0. Timothy Wade (son of Daniel).
Married : — Prussia Osborn.
Issue : —
1148. Susan Wade, m. Tinker, a missionary.
1149. Sarah Wade. b. Feb. 25, 1787; d. Oct. 21, 1858,
Albion, Mich. ; m. Daniel Wooley, and
Spencer.
1150. Phineas Wade, had three wives.
1151. Polly Cook Wade, unm.
Timothy Wade served as a private in Capt. Thomas
Mulford's company, 1st Essex militia in the Revolution,
also in the New Jersey state troops, and also in Capt.
Patterson's company, 3rd battalion, 2nd establishment,
New Jefsey Continental Line.
1045. Patty Wade (daughter of Henry Wade).
Married: — Aaron Ball. He married 2nd Hannah
Willis.
Issue : —
1152. Polly Ball, b. March 23. 1775 ; d. 1852 ; m. Abner
Meeker, Oct. 17, 179o: (he b. Sept. 13, 1770 ; d.
Nov. 7, 1845).
1153. Aaron Ball. m. (1) Betsey Willcox ; m. (2) Betsey
Woodruff.
1154. Henry Ball, m. (1) Hannah Conklin ; m. (2) Sarah
Mullock.
1155. Phebe Ball, m. John Hallock, Judge Co. Court and
Mem. of Cong.
By second wife: —
1156. Harriet Ball, m. Stephen Bonnel of Plainfield.
1157. Nancy Ball, m. Jos. Shotwell and lived in Rahway.
1158. John Ball, d. June, 1845 ; m. after going to Mexico,
and had two children.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 267
1046. Eli Wade (son of John, Jr.), born March 2, 1754 ;
died November 4, 1802.
Married: — Hannah Osborn, 1778 (she was born Feb-
ruary,- 28, 1755 ; died May 29, 1829).
Issue : —
1159. John Wade, b. Feb. 25, 1779.
1160. Enos Wade, b. Sept. 19, 1781.
1161. Squire Wade, b. Aug. 27, 1783.
1162. Eachel Wade, b. Jan. 28, 1786 ; d. July 31, 1874 ; m.
Jonathan Harrison.
1168. Elizabeth Wade, b. Sept. 2, 1788 ; m. Wm. Price on
May 25, 1810; had 7 children.
1164. Aaron Wade. b. Jan. 3, 1791.
1165. Jane Wade, b. March 15, 1794; mar. .
Eli Wade's Revolutionary losses were as follows: —
No. 37. Connecticut Farms, 29th May, 1789.
Inventory and apprifal of the property of Eli Wade, taken by the
Britifh army or their Adherents the 7th of June, 1780.
1 Hog of 1301b. Weight, £1.17.6
7 yards of New Bed Ticken. 1 . 4.6
1 pewter Bafon, 3 pewter plates, 4 spoons, 6 knives
& forks, 1 . 6.0
2 pillow Cafey, . 6.0
1 Broad Cloth fhort Cloke & 1 Coat & Veft, 1 . 10 . 0
6 . 4.0
The above attefted to by the oaths of Eli Wade and Abraham Skip-
man.
1050. Matthias Wade (son of John, Jr.).
Issue : —
1166. (?)
Matthias Wade was a private in the Essex county militia
in the Revolution.
1053. NoAHDiAH Wade (son of Samuel), born March 17,
1744 ; died January 22, 1828.
Married : — I, Eunice Car,y.
Issue : —
1167. Samuel Wade, m. (1) Nancy Vankirk ; m. (2) Eachel
Whitehead, Oct. 15, 1809 ; d. aged 60.
1168. Elizabeth Wade, m. Daniel Shannon.
1169. Mary Wade, m. Andrew Johnson.
268 The Wade Genealogy.
Married : — II, Anna Braisted.
Issue : —
1170. NoaMiah Wade, b. 1806; m. Martha Wolverton.
1171. Eunice Wade. b. April 32, 1807 ; m. Jonas Beardslee,
May 12, 1828.
Noahdiah Wade was commissioned a captain of the
4th battalion, second establishment, New Jersey Con-
tinental Line, December 2, 1776. He resigned his com-
mission on December 2, 1777.
1054. Mary Wade (daughter of Samuel).
Married: — Waitstill Munson, March 19, 1755; he
died February 26, 1777, aged 47 years, of small pox.
She then married, February 11, 1778, David Mott.
Issue : —
1172. Samuel Munson, b. 1760; d. Feb. 26, 1777, of small
pox.
1173. Moses Munson, b. 1778 : d. Feb. 27, 1777, of smallpox,
1174. Phoebe Munson, b. 1758; d. Feb. 25, 1777, of small
pox.
1175. Amos Munson. b. 1756 ; d. Aug. 20, 1776, of dysentery.
1176. Isaac Munson, living 1794.
1177. Israel Munson, living 1794.
1055. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Samuel).
Married : — Esacor Rude.
Issue : —
1178. (?)
1056. Jonathan Wade, Jr. (son of Jonathan), born 1749;
died after 1801.
Married : — Elizabeth (daughter of Zebedee Ward).
Isstie : —
1179. Sylvester Wade, b. Feb. 25, 1770.
1180. Jemima Wade, b. July 12, 1771; m. Demas, son of
Jos. Harrison.
1181. Obadiah Wade, b. July 6, 1773.
1182. Nathaniel Wade, b. Oct. 18, 1775; d. Jan., 1857.
1183. AbnerWade, b. Dec. 8, 1777; d. young.
1184. Samuel Wade, b. Sept. 22, 1779; d. young.
1185. Elizabeth Wade, b. April 6, 1781; d. young.
1186. Charity Wade, b. Aug. 6, 1783; d. young.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 269
1187. Dorothy Wade, b. Sept 9, 1785.
1188. Elizabeth Wade, triplet to 1187, d. in infancy.
1189. Charity Wade, triplet to 1187; d. in infancy.
1190. Elizabeth Wade, b. May 26, 1787.
1191. SamnelWade, b. Nov. 19, 178»; d. young.
1193. Sarah Wade, b. April 5, 1790, unm.
1193. Calvin Wade, b. Nov. 22, 1791, a shoemaker; m.
Melinda Moore.
1194. Jonathan Wade, b. July 16, 1793; m. Lockey Headly;
d. Nov. 7, 1859, at Keyport, N. J.
1195. Polly Wade, b. April 9. 1794; d. young.
1196. Demas H. Wade, b. Feb. 9, 1797; d. 1820.
Jonathan Wade served as Sergeant in Capt. Abraham
Lyon's company, 2nd regiment, Essex county militia in
the Revolution.
1057. Patience Wade (daughter of Jonathan), born about
1751; died about 1831.
Married : — John Meeker, born 1750.
Issue : —
1197. Dorothy Meeker, b. May 4, 1782; m. Chas. Jennings;
d. May 16, 1851; (he b. Dec. 22, 1774; d. March 22,
1831).
1198. Catherine Meeker, m. Daniel Baldwin.
1199. Stephen Meeker, b. 1795; d. 1824; m. Phebe, dau. of
Benj. and Phebe (Wade) Johnson.
1200. David ]\£eeker, d. young.
1201. Nathaniel Wade Meeker, b. 1793; m. Patience Lewis.
1202. Betsey Meeker, b. Dec. 10, 1786; d. July 8, 1876; m.
Oct. 28, 1807, to Caleb Edwards, (b. 1786; d. 1859);
had eight children.
1203. Michael Meeker.
1058. Nathaniel Wade (son of Jonathan), born about
1753; died September, 1785 (?)
Married: — Sarah Wade (No. 1066), his cousin (daugh-
ter of Joseph Wade).
Issue : —
1204. Nathaniel Wade, Jr., b. June 14, 1779; d. April 5,
1823, of pleurisy.
1205. Joseph Wade, b. 1777; d. June, 1841.
1206. Phebe Wade, m. Geo. W. Combs of Philadelphia.
1207. Hannah Wade, m. John Egel of Philadelphia.
1208 Stephen Wade, d. unm.
370 The Wade Genealogy.
On September 24, 1785, Henry Wells Wade (No. 1059)
was appointed administrator of the personal estate of his
deceased brother, Nathaniel Wade (Trenton Records,
Book 27, p. 375). Nathaniel Wade served as a private in
Capt. Squiers' company, 2d regiment, Essex county militia
in_the Revolution. He also appears on the muster rolls of
the New Jersey Continental line as a cadet.
1059. Henry Wells Wade (son of Jonathan Wade), born
June 6, 1748; died February 24, 1823.
Married: — Margaret Ward, September 23, 1773 (she
was born January 24, 1755 ; died May 29, 1832);
lived at Livingston, N. J.
Issue : —
1209. Ruth Wade, b. Jan. 10, 1774; d. Jan. 11, 1851 ; m.
Stephen Edwards.
1210. Hamutel Wade. b. May 22, 1775 ; d. Dec. 18, 1827 ;
m. TJzal Harrison.
1211. Lydia Wade, b. Dec. 7, 1776 ; d. March 12, 1868 ; m.
Frazer ; moved to Lake Country, N. Y.
1212. Mary Wade. b. May 19, 1778 ; d. Oct. 2, 1858 ; m.
Daniel Dean.
1213. Catharine Wade. b. Nov. 29, 1779 ; d. Aug. 3, 1841 ;
m. Nathan Williams, and had dau. , Electa.
1214. Wells Wade, b. Dec. 19, '1780; d. May 17, 1858.
1215. Margaret Wade, b. July 16, 1782 ; d. Oct. 4, 1872 ; m.
Luther Little, and had dau. . Abby.
1216. Betsey Wade, b. Jan. 31, 1784; d. Oct. 2, 1819; m.
Samuel Squier.
1217. A son, who died in infancy.
1218. A son, who died in infancy.
1219. Electa Wade, b. April 14, 1787; d. Sept. 27, 1829; m.
(1) Samuel Dean, and (2) -Denman.
1220. Abbey Wade, b. Dec. 25, 1788 ; m. as 2nd wife Samuel
Squier ; m. (2) Dodd.
1221. Nancy Wade, b. July 14, 1794 : d. Aug. 5, 1864; unm;
sick 21 years with aneurism.
1222. Phehe Wade, b. Feb. 23, 1796; d. Dec. 27, 1861 ; m.
Hiram Ambler; and moved to Connecticut.
1223. Dorcas Wade, b. Sept. 3, 1797 ; d. Oct. 24, 1837 of
consumption: unm.
Henry Wells Wade is probably the Henry Wade who
served as a private in Captain William Gifford's company,
3d battalion, second establishment, New Jersey Con-
tinental Line. He also served in the campaign against the
Indians of the Six Nations in Western Pennsylvania, in
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 271
1779, and subsequently as Corporal in Captain Jonathan
Forman's company, 3d regiment, New Jersey Conti-
nental Line in the Virginia campaign of 1781, being pres-
ent at the siege of Yorktown, and at the surrender of Lord
Cornwallis, October 19, 1781. Henry Wade was present at
the battle of Springfield, June 23, 1780, and was bayoneted
in the leg. Mrs. James Caldwell's corpse was taken to
Henry Wade's house, June 8, 1780, after her murder by a
Tory, as one of the few houses left standing in Connecticut
Farms.
1060. Obadiah Wade (son of Jonathan Wade), died after
1801.
Married: — I, Hannah Pierson.
Issue : —
1224. Jabez Pierson Wade, died in infancy.
1225. Sarah Wade.
1226. Daniel Pierson Wade, b. June 26, 1791 ; d. April 13,
1861.
Married : — II, Catherine Wynant of Shrewsbury, N. J.
She afterwards married Nathan Williams, whose
first wife was Catherine Wade (No. 1213), a daugh-
ter of Henry Wells Wade.
Issue : —
1227. WilUam Wells Wade, d. aged 20 ; bur. Orange Cem-
etery.
Obadiah Wade resided in Orange Street, New York City,
and owned two houses there at his death. lie made quite
a fortune filling up The Collect (a water course in the busi-
ness section of New York City), a work which, required
several years. He served as a private in the Essex county
militia in the Revolution.
1061. Abner Wade (son of Jonathan), died after 1801.
Married :—Phehe Beach, May 18, 1780 ; lived in New
York City.
272 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : — (All lived in New York city),
1228. Abby Morehouse Wade, b. March 3, 1782 ; m.
Roofers.
122!). Dolly Wells Wade, b. Feb. 13.1785 ; m. Worrall.
1230. Phebe Wade, m. Fairweather.
1231. Sallie Wade, b. Oct. 21, 1787: m. Baldwin.
1232. Abner Wade.
1233. Noah Beach Wade, b. Jime 23, 1783.
Abner Wade served as a private m the Essex county
militia of New Jersey in the Revolution,
1062. Dorothy Wade (daughter of Jonathan) born 1763.
Married : — Aaron Burnet.
Issue : —
1234, Polly Burnet, m. David Burnet.
1235. Phebe Burnet, living '76; m. Jacob Sharp.
1063. Benjamin Wade (son of Jonathan), born 1749.
Married : — Tabitha (daughter of Richard Harrison),
born May 16, 1773; died October 6, 1819.
Issue : —
1236. Uzal Harrison Wade, b. Dec. 3, 1794 ; d. March 5,
1878.
1237. Eliza Wade. b. March 26, 1797; m. Benjamin Bull.
1238. Joanna Wade, b. Dec. 15, 1806 ; m. Benjamin Hulse
as 2d wife.
1239. Clarissa Wade, b. Aug. 12, 1799 ; m. Benjamin Hulse
as Ist wife
1240. Hannah Maria Wade, b. Sept. 23, 1809 ; d. Sept. 20,
1836 ; m. F. Colman.
1241. Almiia Wade, b. Jan. 18, 1818; m. Doolittle ;
lived Hamptonburg, N. Y.
1242. Amelia Beach Wade, b. Nov. 17, 1815 ; d. Feb., 1877 ;
m. Thos. Coleman of Freeman, N. Y,
1243. Benjamin Wade, b. Feb. 17, 1812 ; m. Sarah Van
Velser of Newark, N. J.
1244. Henry Wells Wade, b. May 2, 1804 ; d. Nov. 30, 1831,
unm.
1245. Eichard Wade, b. Aug. 10, 1792 ; d. in infancy.
1246. Eichard Maitland Wade, b. Jan, 17, 1802 ; d. Jan. 11,
1827.
Benjamin Wade lived in New York city, removing, in
after years, to Goshen, Orange county, N. Y., where he
died after 1801.
EzEKiEL Mtlford Wade, M. D.
(Massachusetts Family.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 373
1064. Andrew Wade (son of Joseph), born 1740.
Married : — I, Martha Riggs, at Morristown, N. J.,
December 4, 1705. She was born in 1743 and died
June 24, 1777, at Morristown. of small pox.
Married : — II, Rachel (daughter of John and Puah
Osborn) and widow of Jonathan Bailey of Morris
county, N. J.
Issue : —
1247. Jeptha "Wade, b. Jan. 29, 1768, in Essex county, N.J.;
d. March 9, 1813.
1248. Electa Wade, b. Nov. 1, 1771 ; d May 10, 1843.
1249. Gideon Wade, b. Aug. 11, 1776 ; bapt. July 10, 1777.
1250. Martha Wade, b. Feb. 10, 1780 ; d. Feb. 7, 1842.
1251. Rachel Wade, b. Feb. 10, 1780 ; d. June 25, 1780.
Andrew Wade died January, 1781. His widow Rachel
married (3), Isaac Clark, December 7, 1787. He was
known as the blind fiddler and lived in Passaic Valley.
After his death she married (4) Samuel, the son of Abner
Tucker. Surviving her fourth husband, she died February,
1840. Administration of Andrew Wade's effects was
granted to Simon Wade (No. 1065) January 31, 1781.
(Trenton Records, Book M., p. 71.) Inventory, ;,^55..1..2.
1065. Simon Wade (son of Joseph), born in Springfield,
N. J., September 15, 1749; died September 21,
1817.
Married: — Abagaile Beardslee, February, 1786;.
she was born November 8, 1758; died March 16,
1847.
Issue : — (All born in Ogdensburg, N. Y.)
1252. Charles Wade, b. Dec. 4, 1796 ; d. Nov. 22, 1869.
1253. Clarissa Wade, b. Jan, 24, 1787 ; d. Feb. 8, 1832.
1254. Sarah Wade, b. June 23, 1789 ; d. Jan. (?) June 17,
1876.
1255. Serein or Searing Wade, b. May \ 1793 ; d. April 3,
1863.
Simon Wade served as a private m the Sussex county
militia in the Revolution.
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274 The Wade Genealogy.
1066. Sarah Wade (daughter of Joseph), born July 2,
1754.
Married : — About 1775, Nathaniel Wade, her cousin.
Issue : —
1255a.
1067. Hannah Wade (daughter of Joseph), born August
29, 1756.
1068. Stephen Wade (son of Joseph), born August 26,
1759.
1069. Joseph Wade (son of Joseph), born October 16,
1761; died at Hanover, N. J., February, 1818.
Married: — 1, Sarah Beach.
Married : — U, Hannah Allen, a widow.
Issue : —
1256. Stephen Wade, d. before March, 1818 ; m. Jones.
1257. William Wade, d. unm.
1258. Patience B. Wade, m. Kiggs.
1259. Abigail Wade, m. John Doty.
1260. Phebe Wade, m. Harvey Douglas.
1261. Calvin Wade, m. Brown or Mary Griffith of
Hanover Neck.
1262. Sarah Wade, m. Crane.
1263. Jemima Wade, m. Calvin Edwards and removed to
Lake Country, N. Y.
1264. Aaron D. Wade. d. in Newark, N. J., 1872.
Joseph Wade served as a private in Capt. Peter Layton's
company. Eastern battalion, Morris county militia and
also in the New Jerse}'' state troops.
1070. Phebe Wade (daughter of Joseph), born April 24,
1765.
Married : — I, Benjamin Johnson, who died Septem-
ber 25, 1806.
Issue : —
1265. Moses Johnson, died in infancy, aged 2 years.
1266. Sarah Johnson, b. Dec. 4, 1790 ; d. May 7, 1854 ; m.
Joseph Court^r, Nov. 30, 1809, and had twelve
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 275
children. He was b. May 30, 1788, and d, Nov. 1,
1864.
1267, Abigail Johnson, m. Sullivan ; d. 1840, of
consumption. He d. 1824.
1268. Phebe P. Johnson, b. 1797 ; d. May 17, 1841 ; m.
Stephen Meeker.
Married : — II, David Lyon.
No issue.
Phebe Wade died December 8, 1848. Buried at North-
field, N. J.
1071. Abigail Wade (daughter of Joseph), born January
5, 1768.
Married: Titchnell (?)
Issue ? —
1269. .
1076. Jonas Wade (son of James).
Married: — Rhoda (daughter of Samuel Headley),
born 1756 ; died October 27, 1837, aged 81 years,
8 months.
Issue : — (Born Union, N. J.)
1270. James Wade, b. Dec. 21, 1778 ; d. March 6, 1819.
1271. Stephen Wade, b. Nov. 29, 1780 ; d, Feb. 6, 1787, s. p.
1272. Phebe Wade, b. Oct. 3, 1782 ; d. Aug. 21, 1867 ; m.
Daniel Wurts, July, 1806.
1273. Oliver Wade (Elder), b. Sept. [3, 1784 ; d. Dec. 2,
1822.
1274. Noah Wade, b. Jan. 10, 1787 ; d. Feb., 1821, unm.
1275. Maria Wade, b. June 25, 1788 ; d. May 6, 1799.
1276. Harriet Wade, b. March 19, 1790; d. Sept. 10, 1864.
1277. Hannah Wade, b. June 6, 1792 ; d. Aug. 29, 1848.
1278. Eliza Wade, b. Oct. 20, 1794 ; d. March 9, 1872.
1279. Jane Wade, b. April 25, 1797 ; d. Sept. 11, 1874; m.
Elijah Stites of New York city, Dec. 28. 1819. who
d. Oct. 10, 1857, aged 68. No children.
Jonas Wade served as a private in the Essex county
militia in the Revolution. His losses in the Revolution
were as follows: —
No. 19. ■ Connecticut Farms, 28th May, 1789.
Inventory and Apprifal of the property of Jonas Wade, taken and
deftroyed hj the Britifh Army or their Adherents in the month of
November, 1776, and the 7th of June, 1780.
276 The Wade Genealogy.
30 Bushels of Wheat, £12 . 0.0
15 pair of Mens Shoes, 6 . 0.0
June 1780—275 pair Mens Shoes, 110 . 0.0
35 Cords of Bark Burnt, 51 . 5.0
16 Large Sides of Soal Leather, 20 . 0.0
1 Equal half of 3 Buildings, Burnt, 65 . 0.0
1 Horfe three years old, 14 . 0.0
2 pair of Boots. 3.0.0
1 pair of plated Spurs, 10 . 0
2 pair of new Leather Breeches, . 3 . 10 . 0
15 pair of Stockings, @ 7s, 3 . 15 . 0
4 Shirts. @ 10s, 2.0.0
7 fine Sheets, 5.12.0
4 Woollen Blankets, 2 . 10 . 0
1 Man Saddle, 2 . 0.0
1 Silver Stock Buckle and Ten Stocks. 2 . 0.0
3 Pork Gammons, 1 . 10 . 0
1 Barrel of Vinegar, 1 . 0.0
2 Sheep, 1 . 10 . 0
1 Long Gown — three Aprons, 2 . 9.0
9 pair of Pillow Cafes, 3 . 14 . 0
10 Towels— two Table Cloths, 1 . 8.0
6 tine Handerchiefs @ 5s, 1 . 10 . 0
2 Very fine Shifts. 1.0.0
50 lbs. of Pork, 1 . 13 . 4
1 pair Cloth Breeches & one Jackcoat, 1 . 12 . 0
6 Tanned Calf Skins, 3 . 0. 0
3 Large Sides of Harnefs Leather, 4 . 10 . 0
£327 .4.4
The above attefted by the oaths of Sonas Wade Efquire, and
James Wheeler Wade.
1077. Hannah Wade (daughter of James).
Married : — I, David Crane.
Issue : —
1280. Elizabeth Crane, m. Aaron Nutman.
1281. Phebe Crane, m. Morris Crane.
Married : — II, John Tichenor.
Issue : —
1282. John Tichenor, resided in Schenectady, N. Y.
1282a. A son.
1282f. A daughter.
Hannah (Wade Crane) Tichenor moved with her second
husband to Galloway, near Albany, N. Y., where she died.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 277
1078. James Wheeler Wade (son of James).
Married:— I, Margaret Bishop, June 30(?), 1786; she
was born 1769 ; died 1791.
Married : — TI, Hannah Pierson, June 30, 1794; she
was born August 8, 1769 ; died January 24, 1828.
Issue : — (Born in Union, N. J.)
1283. James Wilson Wade, b. Sept, 22, 1788; d. Aug. 20,
1864.
1284. Margaret Bishop Wade, b. May 7, 1795; m. John
Briant, March 12, 1816
1285. David Wade, b. Dec. 6. 1797; d. Jan. 13, 1879.
1286. William Pierson Wade, b. Sept. 18, 1799; d. Dec. 22,
1846.
1287. Hetty Thompson Wade, b. Dec. 15, 1803 ; m. Archi-
bald Davenport.
, James Wheeler Wade was a private in the Pennsylvania
insurrection of 1794. His losses in the Revolution were as
follows : —
. No. 5. Connecticut Farms, 25th May, 1789.
Inventory and Apprifal of the property of James Wheeler Wade,
taken by the Britifh Army or their Adherents on the 7th day of June,
1780.
1 pair of new Leather Breeches,
2 Shirts,
5 Neck Stocks,
1 Silver Stock Buckle & one Broch,
1 Silk handkerchief,
1 Tight Bodied Coat,
1 Jackcoat.
3 pair of Stockings,
£9 . 1.6
The above attefted to by the oaths of James Wheeler Wade and
Jonas Wade, Efquire.
1079. Isaac Wade (son of James), born February 19, 1763;
died September 14, 1809.
Married : — Lois Osborn, November 15, 1786; she was
born February 9, 1766; died August 9, 1830.
Issue :— (All born at Springfield, N. J.)
1288. Elizabeth Wade, b. Dec. 15, 1787 ; m. Eev. Gershom
Williams ; d. Aug. 1, 1847; murdered. (See Good-
rich's Hist, of Wayne Co. , Pa. , pp. 91 and 238 and
post. No. 1288.
1289. William Wade, b. Nov. 17, 1789; d. Jan. 24, 1875,
£1 ,
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278 The Wade Genealogy.
1290. Phebe Wade, b. Nov. 15, 1791; d. Dec. 26, 1891, at
Irvington, N. J.
1291. Jane Wade. b. March 12, 1794; d. Feb. 6, 1814, unm.
1292. James Wade, b. Feb. 18, 1796 ; d. April 3. 1800.
1293. Elias Wade, b. Sept. 25, 1798 ; d. 1880 (1879)?
1294. Sarah Wade, b. Aug. 21. 1800; d. Jan. 19, 1880.
1295. Hannah Wade, b. Aug. 28, 1802; d. Jan., 1853 of can-
cer ; unm.
1296. Mary Brant Wade, b. Nov. 23, 1804 ; d. June 12, 1862,
in New Brighton. Pa.
1297. Isaac Edmundson Wade, b. Oct. 13, 1807 ; d. April 21,
1850, in Houston, Texas.
10,80. Sarah Wade (daughter of James).
Married: — John Roberts.
Issue : — (Born in Newark, N. J.)
1298. Elias Roberts, resided near Newark, N. J,
1299. Daughter, m. David Allen of Newark, N. J.
1300. Son.
1301. Son.
1302. Daughter.
1303. Daughter.
1081. Elias Wade (son of James).
Married : — Elizabeth (daughter of Michael Woodruff),
January 10, 1794; she was born January 25, 1777,
died April 6 (8?), 1852.
Issue : — (All born at Elizabeth, N. J. )
1304. Jonas Hinman Wade, b. Nov. 28, 1795; d. April 11,
1797 ; bur. Elizabeth.
1305. Jonas Hinman Wade, 2d, b. Feb. 9, 1801 ; d. Nov. 15,
1805 ; drowned in a cistern.
1306. Stephen Wheeler Wade, b. June 17, 1804 ; d. Feb. 12,
1863 ; unm.
1307. Eobert Wade, b. Feb. 23, 1806 ; d. Oct. 1, 1846 ; unm.
1308. Elizabeth Cook Wade, h. Oct. 17, 1808.
1309. Henry KoUock Wade, b. July 11, 1811 ; d. Nov. 29,
1828 ; unm.
Elias Wade died April 27, 1844.
1082. UzAL Wade (son of James), born November 30, 1768 ;
died November 30, 1828.
Married : — Phebe Harrison, November 3, 1792.
She was born October 8, 1845.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 279
Issue : — (Born at SpriDgfield, N. J.)
1310. William Arnot Wade, b. Oct. 31, 1794 ; d. March 20,
1813.
1311. Jonas Wade, b. Oct. 13, 1797; d. May 31, 1868.
1312. Temperance Wade, b. Aug. 15, 1800 ; d. Dec. 9, 1801.
1313. Oliver Wade, b. April 23, 1804.
1314. Israel Wade, b. Sept, 14, 1806 ; d. Oct. 8 (?18), 1813.
1315. Uzal Newton. Wade, b. Aug. 30, 1809: d. after 1881.
1316. Phebe Wade, b. May 3, and d. Aug. 8, 1813.
.1083. Robert Wade (son of James), born January 6, 1771;
died March 15, 1829.
Married : — I, Deborah Hopper, August 4, 1792, at
Dutch Reformed Church, New York. She was
born December 16, 1773; died April 10, 1812.
Married : — II, Elizabeth Davidson, October 3, 1817.
She was born July 17, 1775.
Isstie : — (Born in New York city).
1317. Hannah Wade, b. April 29, 1793 ; d. unm. April 16,
1812.
1318. James Wade, b. Jan. 12, 1795.
1319. Elizabeth Wade, b. Oct. 29, 1797 ; d. unm. Oct. 6,
1805.
1320. Robert Hinman Wade, b. Oct. 7, 1798 ; d. June 8,
1801.
1321. An infant son, b. Sept. 13, and d. Oct. 9, 1800.
1322. Robert Hinman Wade 2d, b. Jan. 4, 1802 ; d. Aug.
29 1822 8 X)
1323. Deborah Wade, b. July 21, 1804.
1324. Mary Wade, b. Oct. 10, 1806.
1325. Yellus Hopper Wade, b. Nov. 22, 1808.
1326. Twin daughters, b. March 16, and d. March 20 and
April 8, 1812.
1085. Nehemiah Wade (son of James), born September
6, 1772.
Married .— Phehe Hendricks, April 30, 1796. She
was born August 27, 1779, and buried September
18, 1823.
Issue:— (Born at Elizabeth).
1327. John Woodruff Wade, b. Jan. 10, 1797; d. Sept. 14,
1817.
1328. James Hinman Wade, b. Oct. 18, 1798 ; d. Aug. 28,
1873.
1329. George Washington Wade, b. May 11, 1800; d. Jan.
10, 1883.
280 The Wade Genealogy.
1330. Nehemiah Wade, b. Feb. 7, 1«03.
1331. Alexander Hamilton Wade, b. July 16, 1805 ; d. May
15, 1893.
1332. David Wade, b. Sept. 17, 1807 ; d. Oct. 22, 1813.
1333. Mary Hendricks Wade, b. July 16, 1813 ; d. Feb. 1,
1819.
1334. John Wade, b. Sept. 24, 1822 ; d. March 15, 1843.
1086. Caleb Wade (son of David).
Manned: — Patience Wade (No. 1041) (daughter of
Daniel).
Issue : —
1335. Patience Wade, m. Stephen Wade (No. 1122).
1336. Elizabeth Wadfe, m. Stephen Wade (No. 1122), late
in life ; had daughter Phebe, who m. A. Shaw.
1337. Phebe Wade, d. March 2, 1836, by falling down stairs
in New York.
Caleb Wade'.s losses in the Revolution were as follows: —
No. 9. Connecticut Farms, 26th May, 1789.
Inventory and Apprifal of the property of Caleb Wade, Junr.,
plundered, taken and deftroyed by the Britifh Army or their Adhe-
rents, on the 7th day of June, 1780.
22 pair of Shoes, new, for Mans wear, £11 . 0.0
2 Calf Skins Tan'd and Curried, 1 . 12 . 0
1 Spring Calf, 1.10.0
1 Gun, 1 . 15 . 0
1 Pig, weight 40 pounds, 10 . 0
12 panes of Glafs, 6.0
5 Bushels of Indian Corn, 1 . 0.0
1 pork Gammon 20 lbs. weight, 13 . 4
6 Fowls, 6 . 0
1 Copper Tea Kettle — one frying pan, 1.18.0
6 Pewter plates— 1 pewter pint pot— 2 Quart Bafins,! . 1.0
1 Good Feather Bed, 6.0.0
2 New Coverlids, 4 . 0.0
4 pair of Sheets, 6 . 0.0
3 pair of Pillow Cafes, 18 . 0
4 Good Shirts, 2 . 0.0
1 Grazet Long Gown, 2 . 10 . 0
1 Callico Gown, 2 . 0.0
1 Worfted Gown, 1.5.0
1 White Lawn Apron, 1 . 0.0
4 Lawn Handkerchiefs, 1 . 0.0
2 Short Gowns— 2 Silk handkerchiefs. 1 . 12 . 0
12 pair of Stockings— 2 Silver Stotch Buckles, 5 . 16 , 0
1 Silk Jacoat— 1 Caftor hat, 4 . 0.0
1 Bonnet— 1 Cloak and one Bible, 1 . 8.0
1 Pfalm Book& Hymn book and young mans Oompanionl2 . 0
£61 . 12 . 4
The above attefted to by oath of Caleb Wade, Junr., and Doctor
Caleb Halftead.
Captain Robrrt Buchanan Wade, U. S. A.
(No. 591, p. 202.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 281
1087. Noah Wade (son of David), born October 13, 1768.
Issue : —
1338. (?)
Noah Wade died April 6, 1801.
1088. David Everett Wade (son of David), born Febru-
ary 22, 1763; died July 22, ]842.
Married: — Mary Jones, June 20, 1786. She was born
October 16, 1765, in New Jersey ; died April 28,
1811, at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Issue : —
1389. David Wade. b. Sept. 19. 1788; d. April 20, 1825.
1340. Nehemiah Wade, b. 1795 ; d. July 24, 1879.
1341. Mary Wade, b. Nov. 30, 1797; d. Nov. 16, 1871.
1342. Sarah Everett Wade, b. Oct. 23, 1800; d. Sept. 1,
1880.
1348. Melancthon Smith Wade, b. Dec. 2, 1802 ; d. Aug.
11, 1868.
1344. Susan Ann Wade, b. Jan. 22, 1805 ; d. Sept. 14, 1852.
1345. Stephen J. Wade, b. Dec. 18, 1808 ; d. Sept. 25, 1872.
David E. Wade had an excellent military record as a
private in the Essex county militia. He was twice
wounded and was a prisoner of war on the prison ship
yersey.
At the battle of Springfield, June 23, 1780, Colonel
Angell, commanding a regiment of Continental troops,
dispatched David Everett Wade, then a youth of 19 years
of age, to General Greene in order to inform him that the
small arm ammunition of the patriots was reduced to two
rounds per man, and to ask his instructions. Greene is
said to have directed its expenditure, to be followed
by an orderly retirement.
In June, 1830, some of the veterans of the battle of
Springfield held a reunion in the village. Among those
present was David Everett Wade. His portrait is here
reproduced from a valuable miniature in the possession of
his descendant, William E. Guy Esq., of Saint Louis, Mo.
1090. EzEKiEL Wade (son of David), born July 29, 1770 ;
died August 7, 1847; resided at Belleville, N. J.
282 The Wade Genealogy.
Married: — Abigail Woodruff (daughter of William
Woodruff) of Elizabethtown, February 6, 1792.
She was born August 4, 1770, at Elizabeth, N. J. ;
died September 2, 1843.
Issue :
1346. Mary B. Wade, b. Feb. 13, 1793 ; d. Aug. 24, 1843.
1347. William W. Wade, b. July 12, 1795 ; d. Sept. 26, 1843.
1348. David E. Wade, b. Jan. 6, 1797 ; d. Feb. 26, 1832.
1349. Eliza L. Wade, b. Dec. 2, 1799 ; d. July 16, 1878.
1350. JaneL. Wade, b. March 30, 1801 ; d. Aug. 10, 1877;
m. James Housman, 1826, at Hackensack, N. J. ; he
died March 30, 1850 ; no children. She died March
30, 1850. [Bergen Genealogy, v- 267.)
1351. Noah Wade, b. July 16. 1804 ; d. Jan., 1807, s. p.
1352. Sarah A. Wade, b. March 17, 1806 ; d. July 17, 1872.
1353. Abigail H. Wade, b. 1807-10.
1364. Ezekiel Wade, b. Feb. 11, 1811 ; d. Nov. 21, 1897»
South Eiver, N. J.
Ezekiel Wade moved to Fort Washington on the Ohio
River.
1091. Sarah Wade (daughter of David Wade), born Oc-
tober 17, 1766 ; died November 22, 1829.
Married: — Dr. Benjamin Richard Scudder, born
November 14, 1764; died December 8, 1819.
Issue : —
1355. Susan Wade Scudder, b. April 6, 1794.
1356. Ehoda Scudder, b. May 3, 1796 ; m. Daniel MeOrea,
Oct. 17, 1835.
1357. Sarah Stites Scudder, b. Aug. 11, 1802.
1358. Nancy Scudder, b. March 29, 1807.
1092. Job Wade (son of David), born March 8, 1777.
Married : — Mary Weeks, October 9, 1823.
Issjie : —
1359.
1360.
1361.
1362.
Admitted First Presbyterian Church, Newark, N. J.,
1817; his wife in 1826.
1093. Susan Wade (daughter of David), born February
18, 1775; died January 28, 1794.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 283
1094. Rhoda Wade (daughter of David), born October
17, 1772; died August 3, 1791.
1095. Henry Wade (son of David), born May 4, 1779;
died March 18, 1782, s. p.
1096. Nehemiah Wade (son of Nehemiah), died after
1823.
Married: — Jane Smith, September 19, 1784. She
was born 1764; died September 6, 1822, of yellow
fever.
Issue : —
1363. Son, d. Sept. 6, 1822, of yellow fever.
1097. Jonathan Wade (son of Nehemiah), born 1761;
died September 10, 1796, of yellow fever.
Married: — I, Phebe (daughter of William Dayton,
M.D.), April 1, 1791.
Issue : —
1363a. Margaret J. Wade, m. June 6, 1815, James H. Clark,
purser U. S. N.
13636. Cornelia Dayton Wade, m. Matthias O. Halstead of
Belvidere, N. J., Nov. 10, 1817.
1363c. Jonathan Dayton Wade, buried Feb. 21, 1806,
Married: — II, Phoebe Woodruff, born 1776; died
August 1, 1798; buried at Elizabeth.
His will is dated September 10, 1796, and was proved
September 15, 1796. (Trenton, Book 35, p. 350.) It
appoints his wife and his brother Benjamin executors.
His widow's will is dated May 18, 1798, and was proved
August 7, 1798. (Trenton, Book 37, p. 535.) It mentions
her step-daughter Cornelia Dayton Wade and her step-son
Jonathan Dayton Wade.
1099. James Wade (son of Nehemiah).
Married : — Nancy (daughter of Dr. Isaac Mosse) of
Elizabethtown, September 22, 1798. She was
284 The Wade Genealogy.'
born 1780, and died August 29, 1851, at Elizabeth-
town.
Issue : —
1364. Abigail Wade, m. Whitfield.
1365. Nathaniel Wade, d. young.
James Wade moved to Philadelphia in 1813.
1100. Mary Wade (daughter of Nehemiah).
Married : — Benjamin Watkins; lived in Elizabeth.
Issue ; —
1366. .
1101. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Nehemiah).
Married: — Tucker; lived in Elizabeth.
Issue : —
1367. .
1102. Benjamin Wade (son of Nehemiah), born, probably,
July 22, 1766.
Married: — I, Catherine (daughter of Rev. Thomas
Morrell) (/) of Elizabethtown, born February 29,
1772, and died November 21, 1800; consumption;
buried November 22, " rejoicing in the hope of a
blissful immortality."
Issue : —
1368. A child; d. Dec. 5, 1803 at Elizabethtown.
1369. Thomas Morrell Wade, b. 1796; d. Feb. 9, 1854, at
Lexington, Va.
1370. Jacob Brush Wade, b. 1799, at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Married: — II, Mary (daughter of Thomas Crowell),
May 24, 1801.
Issue : —
1371. Henrietta B. Wade, b. 1802, at Elizabethtown.
1372. Anna Maria Wade, b. 1805, at Elizabethtown.
1373. Elizabeth V. Wade, b. 1809, at Elizabethtown ; d. at
Philadelphia.
1374. George Washington Wade. d. in Andersonville.
1375. Benjamin Wade, d. at New York, 1846.
(^) As to the famous Rev. Thomas Morrell, see Hatfield's History
of Elizabeth, N. J.,VV- 622-6.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 285
1104. Mary Wade (daughter of Matthias).
Married : — Nathaniel Budd.
Issue : —
1376. Daniel Budd, unm.
1377. Sarah Biidd, m. Concklin.
1378. Nathaniel Budd, Jr.
1379. Hannah Budd, m. Lewis Randolph.
1380. John Budd, m. Mary Day. {j)
1381. Bernard Budd, m. Mary Barlow.
1382. Mary Budd, m. Henry Bell,
1383. Elizabeth Budd, m. Benjamin Mills.
1384. Charlotte Budd, m. Hezekiah Alberts,
1385. Fanny Budd, m. Daniel L. Rummell,
1386. Clara Budd, m. Joseph Rummell,
1387. Joseph Budd, unm.
1105. Deborah Wade (daughter of Matthias),
Married : — Moses Crilley.
Issue : —
1388, ,
138y. ■• — ,
1390. .
1106. CoLONEi, John Wade (son of Matthias), born August
30, 1780; died January 18, 1847,
Married: — Sarah Lyon, August 30, 1804; born Au-
gust 14, 1787, and died May 27, 1859.
Is sice : —
1391. Mary D. Wade, b. Oct. 14, 1805; d. after 1828.
1392. Susan M, Wade, b. June 9, 1807; d. after 1828.
1393. Phebe Dean Wade, b. May 20, 1809; d. after 1828,
1394. Caroline Wade, b. April 28, 1811; d. Feb. 9, 1813.
1395. Charlotte L. Wade, b. Sept. 30, 1813, at Springfield,
N. J. ; m. Silas Beebe; had 12 children.
1396. Jane W.. Wade, b. Jan. 17, 1816 ; d. June 25, 1847, at
Baltimore, Md.
1397. John Wade, Jr., b. April 23, 1818; d. Sept, 1, 1840, at
Baltimore, s. p.
1398. Sarah Wade, b. July 9, 1820; d. May 22, 1825, at
Baltimore, Md,
1400' ^^^^ ^°^®' ^- '^^^- ^^' ^- '^^^- ^^' ^^^^■
1401. Harriet E. Wade, b. March 18, 1823; d. Feb. 28, 1824.
1402. Israel C. Wade, b. May 17, 1825; d. Oct. 11, 1845,
(,;■) See Littell's Passaic Valley Settlers, p. 120,
286 The Wade Genealogy.
1107. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Matthias).
Married : — Noah Searing; died 1807.
Issue : —
1403. Hannah Searing.
1404. Jacob Searing.
1405. Ichabod Wade Searing.
1406. John Searing.
1407. Sally Searing: d. in infancy.
1408. Sally Searing, b. Oct. 8, 1807; living 1883 ; m. Elihu
Southmayd, b. Nov. 5, 1834; d. 1867.
Married : — II, Peter Pixley.
Issue: —
1409. Susan Pixley.
1410. Isaac Pixley.
1411. Edward Pixley.
1110. James Wade (son of Caleb), born April 4, 1777.
Married : .
Issue : —
1412. Andrew Wade, mem. of Legislature 1849; m. and had
children.
1413. Phebe Wade, m. John Leak and moved to Seneca
Falls, N. Y.
1111. Matthias Wade (son of Caleb), born August 31,
1780 ; went to foreign parts and never heard of
again.
1112. Thompson Wade (son of Caleb), born February 21,
1783; died December 31, 1854.
Married: — Susannah Williams, January 14, 1808.
She was born August 7, 1788; died January 29,
1867.
Issue : —
1414. Catherine Wade, b. Dec. 12, 1808; d. Oct. 9, 1810.
1415. Susannah Wade, b. June 12, 1810 ; d. Oct. 24, 1810.
1416. Matilda Wade, b. Aug. 11, 1811 ; m. William Robb,
Feb. 25, 1836.
1417. Mary Ann Wade. b. July 9, 1813; m. David E. Wood-
ruff, Feb. 9, 1837.
1418. Matthias Thompson Wade, b. June 13, 1815; m. Han-
nah M. Percill, March 26, 1840.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 287
1419. Catherine Harvey Wade, b. Oct. 15, 1818; m. JohuB.
Price of San Jose, Cal.. July 20, 1854.
1820. Lewis Harvey Wade, b. June 9, 1820 ; m. March 5,
1878, Ann F. Kivers of Union, N. J., b. March 29,
1822..
1421. James Monroe Wade. b. April 1, 1822 ; m, Elizabeth
Burnet. Jan. 9, 1850.
1422. Rachel Wade, b. Sept. 29, 1825.
1423. Susan Elizabeth Wade, b. Nov. 23, 1829 ; d. Feb. 18,
1868.
1113. Abigail Wade (daughter of Caleb Wade), born June
28, 1784; d. March 3, 1870.
Married :—'D2iV\d Ball, November 23, 1806; born No-
vember 26, 1783; d. January 11, 1862. They lived
at Turnpike Gate at Union, N. J.
Issue : —
1424. ElizaWade Ball, b. Sept. 30,1807; d. May 1, 1849 ;
m. Jotham Brown, b. Jan. 12, 1805; d. Dec. 30, 1829.
1425. Jane Wade Ball, b. Nov. 5, ]809; m. John Potter,
Jan. 18, 1832; b. Jan. 17, 1809.
1426. Phebe Thompson Ball, b. Jan. 20, 1813 ; d. March 3,
1861; m. John Burnet, March 25, 1840; b. Oct. 24,
1814; d. March 16, 1880.
1427. James Ball, b. Oct. 25. 1815; d. Oct. 3, 1873 ; m. Jane
Halsey Burnet, Dec. 10, 1840; b. April 20, 1820.
1428. Samuel Day Ball, b. Jan. 21, 1824; m. (1) Caroline
Wilcox, Nov. 4, 1845; m. (2) Phebe Ann Foster,
May 12, 1861.
1429. Foster Ball, bapt. April 18, 1815.
1430. Stephen Ball, bapt. April 18, 1815.
1431. Julia Ball, bapt. April 18, 1815.
1114. Rachel Wade (daughter of Caleb), born July 4,
1787 ; died August 14, 1825.
Married :—] dimes \Ni\son Wade (No. 1283).
Issue: — See No. 1283.
1115. Mary Wade (daughter of Jotham), born May 28,
1788; died November 1, 1842.
Married: — John B. Crane, October 23, 1811; he born
May 1, 1784.
Issue : —
1431a. J. Horace Crane, b. Julv 26, 1812; m. Mary M.
Strang, Aug. 80, 1846.
288 The Wade Genealogy.
14316. David Wade Crane, d. prob. of yellow fever in the
South, unm.
1431c. Jotham O. Crane, b. March 12, 1814; m. Keziah
Crane. May 18, 1809; she b. Jan. 9, 1819; both living
1883, Farmingham, 111.'
U3\d. Glorianna Elizabeth Crane, b. March 13, 1816; m.
Jacob Clark, May 14, 1837.
1431e. Andrew Crane, b. June 27, 1818; d. Jan. 3, 1873 ; m.
Elizabeth H. Bradbury, Jan. 3, 1850.
1431/. Hannah Potter Crane, b. March 9, 1820 ; m. Jacob
Ludlow, Sept. 1, 1847.
liSlg. Benjamin Potter Crane, b. Feb. 28, 1822 ; m. Eliza-
beth Blair. Sept. 15, 1867.
1431/i. Charles Watkins Crane, b. Feb. 28, 1824; d. Aug. 3,
1825.
1431 i. Mary W. Crane, b. March 28, 1828; d. March 28,
1835.
143V. Abby Scott Crane, b. April 28, 1832; d. 1865; m.
William Henry Roll. He d. 1866.
1121. Abner Wade (son of Amos), born December 14,
1765.
Married .—Mary C\a.r'k, born April 29, 1'5'64.
Issue : —
■ 1432. Abner Clark Wade, b. Oct. 29, 1787; m. Mary Sayre,
Jan. 14, 1809 ; children, 6 daus. and 1 son.
1433. Elizabeth Wade, b. Nov. 4, 1789 ; m. (1) John Shan-
non; m. (2) Wooley; four children.
1434. Robert Morris Wade, b. May 28, 1792; d. May 7,
1883.
1435. Fanny Wade, b. June 10, 1794 ; m. William S. Van
Court : thirteen children.
1436. Stephen Wade, b. Feb. 1, 1797 ; d. unm.
1437. Henry Wade, b. Feb. 7, 1799 ; d. unm.
1438. Homer Wade, b. March 1, 1801 ; m. Julia K. Eeeve,
Jan. 3, 1832.
Abner Wade was living in Morristown, N. J.j January 1,
1782, at which time he was a member of the First Presby-
terian Church.
1122. Stephen Wade (son of Amos).
Married: — I, Patience (daughter of Caleb Wade),
(No. 1335).
Married :—\\, Elizabeth Wade (No. 1336).
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 289
1124. Rebecca Wade (daughter of Moses), born November
24,1788.
Married : — Aaron Davis, May 28, 1814.
Issue : —
1439. .
1125. Nancy Wade (daughter of Moses), born March 27,
1790.
Married : — Isaac Smith.
Issue : —
1440. .
Lived at Springfield, N. J.
1126. Esther Wade (daughter of Moses), born June 18,
1792.
Married : — Stephen Howell, June 4, 1814; he born
August 22, 1789.
. Issue : —
1441. A son.
1443. A son.
1443. A son. .
1444. A son.
1445. A daughter.
1446. A daughter.
1447. A daughter.
(See Chambers' Early Germans in New Jersey^ pp. 425
and 564.)
1127. Rhoda Wade (daughter of Moses), born October 3,
1793; died August 20, 1849, of cholera.
Married :—Q,d\€[i M. Doty, January 19, 1823 (a de-
scendant of the Mayflozver Pilgrim of that name).
Issue : —
1442. (?)
The Z)ofy Genealogy fails to give any data as to this
descendant.
[19]
290 The Wade Genealogy.
1128. Julia Wade (daughter of Moses), born October 17,
1798; died October 3, 1876.
Married .-—rR-ev. Henry Hervey, D. D., November 1,
1831, at j\Iartinsburg, Ohio; he born November
22, 1798, at Wellsburg, W. Va., died at Martins-
burg, Ohio, February 17, 1872.
Issue : —
1443. Margaret Jane Hervey, b. Oct. 4, 1832; d. Aug. 9
1896.
1443a. Rev. DwightB. Hervey, B. D., b. June 4, 1834; d.
at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Jan. 21, 1902.
14436. Mary Hervey, b. Sept. 18, 1836; d. Aug. 28, 1858.
1443c. Henry Martyn Hervey, b. Oct. 28, 1838; Presbyterian
minister; d. Sept. 5, 1875.
1131. Mary Wade (daughter of Moses), born June 11,
1801.
Married : — Jacob Pierson.
1132. Caroline Wade (daughter of Moses), born Septem-
ber 22, 1805.
Married: — James H. Pierson.
1134. Moses Wade (Son of Moses), born October 28, 1807;
died July, 1897; married, lived, and died in Her-
kimer, N. Y.
Married: — Orrinda Griswold, September 10, 1842;
she born November 1, 1814.
Issue : —
1444. Aaron M. Wade, b. Dec. 15, 1844; unm.
1445. Elias E. Wade, b. Jan. 25, 1847; d. Jan. 15, 1898,
1446. Mary Ann Wade, ,b. Feb. 28, 1848; m. J. B. Putnam,
Oct. 15, 1870; no children; resides at Aspen, Col.,
1902.
1447. Harriet E. Wade, b. April 8, 1850; d. infant.
1448. Charles H. Wade, b. July 1, 1851; res. Golden, Col.,
1902.
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Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 291
1135. Hannah Wade (daughter of Moses), born July 19,
1810.
Married: — Anthony Meeker of Newark, March 6,
1837.
1136. James J. Wade (son of Jacob), born October 23,
1785. Lived in Gains, Orleans Co., Ky.
Married : — I, (daughter of ).
Married : — II, (daughter of ) after 1838.
Issue : —
1449. H. Wade.
1450. Alfred Wade.
1451. James Wade.
1452. Sophia Wade.
1453. Hamilton Wade.
1454'. George Wade.
1137. Jonathan Wade (son of Jacob), born February 5,
1788, at Elizabeth, N. J.
Married: — I, Anna Childs, January 7, 1808; she
born January 5, 1785; died August 24, 1824.
Issue : —
1455. Alfred N. Wade, b. Nov. 16, 1809.
1456. Orrin D. Wade, b. Dec. 20, 1811.
1457. Jonathan 0. Wade, b. March 2:^, 1814.
1458. Moses Wade, b. May 26, 1816.
1459. Walker Wade, b. Sept. 11, 1818.
1460. Stafford Wade, b. Nov. 20, 1820.
1461. Oliver Wade, b. Jan. 23, 1823.
1462. Oelia Anna Wade, b. Aug. 19, 1825.
Married : — II, Abigail Gillette, November 11, 1824,
at Byron, N. Y. ; she born September 22, 1794;
living in China, N. Y., 1838; died at Arcade, N.Y.,
aged 84.
Issue : —
1463. Henry Truman Wade, b. Aug. 11, 1825; living at
Farmersville, N. Y., 1902.
Jonathan Wade resided in Stafford, Genesee Co., N. Y.,
in 1828, and later at Arcade, Wyoming Co., N. Y.,
where he died aged 86.
292 The Wade Genealogy.
1138. Moses Wade (son of Jacob), born July 2, 1792; died
November 20, 1869.
Married : — Sally Maria Bundy, born 1798; died at
Council BlufEs, Iowa, 1848.
Issue : —
1464. Mary Eliza Wade, b. Aug. 3U 1820; m. — - Jackson;
leit one child who lived near Rushford, N. Y.
1465. Edward Davis Wade, d. Jan. 2, 1880, in Utah; had
eh Idren.
1466. Sarah M. Wade, m. Monroe Elliot; no chldren.
1467. Minerva Wade, b. Sept. 2, 1830'; m. W.^A. Hickman,
and lives in Utah and has children.
Moses Wade went to Utah, and became a Latter Day
Saint. He was a dyer and fuller, and later a doctor of
medicine.
1139. Henry Wade (son of Jacob), born February 1, 1805.
Married : — Samantha Hayfird, October 5, 1826. at
Farmersville, N. Y. She was born near Canandai-
gua, N. Y., Nove.riber4, 1808; living in Limestone,
1882.
Issue : — (Born at Farmersville, N. Y. ).
1468. Joel H. Wade, b. Sept. 30, 1827.
1469. John Bruce Wade, b. Aug. 25, 1830 ; d, Jan. 7, 1837,
at Farmersville, N. Y.
1470. Mary Jane Wade, b. Dec. 17, 1832.
1471. Henry Wade, Jr., b. Feb. 1, 1836.
1472. John B. Wade, b. July 4, 1839; d. April 18, 1865,
unm. ; was in mercantile business in Olean, N. Y.,
firm Martin, Wade & Co.
1473. Martha Wade, b. April 7, d. April 18, 1843.
1474. Anna S. Wade, b. Oct. 11, 1844.
1475. Lorain C. Wade, b. Oct. 10, 1846.
1476. Eveline Wade, b. April 20, 1853.
1140. Magdalen Wade (daughter of Jacob), born Novem-
ber 15, 1783.
Married : — Wm. Adams and died at Farmersville,
Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., about 1820. They
moved from Genesee Co. to Farmersville, N. Y.,
about 1819, and she is recorded as being the first
woman who died in that town.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 293
Issue : —
1477. Sarah Adams, m. Lucien Tyler and had four children.
1478. Oliver Adams, had four or five children.
1479. John Adams, m. Osgood; no children; lived in
Wyoming Co., N. Y.
1480. Lucinda Adams.
1481. Lyman Adams.
1482. Harrison Adams, a preacher, lived in Ohio.
1483. Adeline Adams, m. Bryant ; no children.
1143. Joanna Wade (daughter of Jacob), born January 1,
1800.
Married : — Caleb Lewis, and settled in Farmersville,
N. Y.
Jssue : —
1484. Jacob Lewis, m. and left a family.
1485. Lovicia Lewis, m. Geo. Swift.
1486. Caleb Lewis, had two children.
1487. Oliver Lewis, had large family,
1488. Joanna Lewis, m. O. Wilson, and had family.
1489. Eliza Lewis, m. John Badger, and had two unmarried
daughters.
1490. Mary Lewis, m. DeAlt Swift, who d. leaving two
daughters; his family lived at Fredonia, N. Y.
1491. Ralph Lewis, had several children.
1492. Stilwell Lewis, had several children.
114:4. Henry Wade (son of Robert Wade), born Septem-
ber 27, 1789 ; died May 25, 1871.
Married :—V\iQh& Williams, April 7, 1813, born April
13, 1791; died December 26, 1825.
Issue : —
1493. Robert Wade, b. March 29, 1814 ; bap. June 11, 1814;
d. Sept. 8, 1828.
1494. David W. Wade, b. Dec. 6, 1818.
1495. James H. Wade, b. Jan. 28, 1821; d. Aug. 28, 1821.
1496. Mary J. Wade, b. Nov. 10, 1825; m. F. L. Dunbar.
1145. Daniel Wade (son of Robert Wade), born Septem-
ber 15, 1792; died May 19, 1864.
Married : — Margaret (daughter of Benjamin and
Charity Ogden), December 14, 1817; she born
November 22, 1795, and died August 26, 1828, of
puerperal fever; buried 27th.
294 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : —
1497. Benjamin O. Wade, b. Sept. 23, 1818.
1498. Francis Wade, b. Oct. 7, 1819; d. March 5, 1826.
1499. Kachel Elizabeth Wade, b. Mayl, 1821; d. Aug. 11,
1854.
1500. James H. Wade, b. Feb. 25, 1822; d. March 23, 1822.
1501. Margaret Emelme Wade, b. April 11, 1825.
1502. Joanna Wade, b. Aug. 25, 1828; bur. Sept. 10, 1828.
1147. Joanna Wade (daughter of Robert), born Septem-
ber 29, 1795(6?); died November 25, 1880, at Win-
ona, Minn.
Married .-—David Wade (No. 1285.)
Issue :— (See Nob. 1690-1698.)
1148. Susan Wade (daughter of Timothy).
Married : Tinker, a missionary.
1149. Sarah Wade (daughter of Timothy), born February
25, 1787; died October 21, 1858, at Albion, Mich.
Married : — I, Daniel(?) Wooley. He was born March
25, 1786.
Issue : —
1503. Susan Wooley, b. Aug. 21, 1808; d. June 8, 1868 ;
m. Wm. Hen.y Ferine, Feb. 27, 1830. Lived 1884 in
Albion, Mich.
1504. Isaac Wooley, b. Jan. 19, 1810; d. Dec. 2, 1866; m.
April 27, 1829, Sophia Strong. She was b. Sept.
18, 1803; d. Sept. 18, 1870.
1505. David Miller Wooley, b. Dec. 9,1811; d. April 30,
1875; m. Mary Wager Sanders, Aug. 21, 1831.
Lived in Union, N. J., 1884
1506. Harriet Wooley, b. Jan. 16, 1814, at Union, N. J.; d.
June 2, 1862 ; m. Lindsley Jetadia Beach, Sept. 25,
1860, who d. Feb. 12, 1881, aged 81.
1507. Jacob Wooley, b. April 6, 1816; m. S. E. Carman.
Living 1884, in California.
Married : — II, Spencer.
1150. Phineas M. Wade (son of Timothy).
Married : I, Jones.
Married :—\\, March 25, 1832, widow of McDou-
gal, her maiden name being Nancy Pierson.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 295
Married : — III, widow of Philip Osborn, her maiden
name being Maria M. AHen.
Issue : —
1508. Emma Jane Wade, b. Au":. 23, 1834.
1509. William Silas Wade, b. March 20, 1844.
1159. John Wade (son of Eli), born February 25, 1799.
1160. Enos Wade (son of Eli), born September 19, 1781.
1161. Squire Wade (son of Eli), born Augiist 27, 1783.
1162. Rachel Wade (daughter of Eli), born January 28,
1786 ; died July 31, 1874.
Married :— Jonathan Harrison (son of Stephen and
Abigail [Mulford] Harrison), (k) May 19, 1805, born
October 9, 1778; died March 13, 1867. His will
is dated November 13, 1863; proved March 30,
1867.
[k] Jonathan Harrison was the grandson of Timothy Harrison
(born about 1720; died May, 1788; buried May 16 at Elizabeth) and
Elizabeth Meeker (?) his wife (died August, 1793; buried August 5, at
Elizabeth). Timothy Harrison was probably of the Orange branch
of the Newark. N. J., Harrisons, descendants of the original Harri-
son settler of Newark, Sergeant Richard Harrison, who came from
Branford, Conn., and had emigrated from West Kirby, Cheshire,
England. Timothy's sons, Stephen, Matthew and Abraham, served
in the Revolution as privates. Abraham is buried at Lyon's Farms,
N. J. Stephen Harrison (born 1743; died December 22, 1793),
father of the above-named Jonathan Harrison, is buried
in the Presbyterian churchyard at Elizabeth, N. J., his tomb
being marked by the bronze marker of the Sons of the American
Revolution. He married Abigail, daughter of Job Mulford (a de-
scendant of Lieutenant Lion Gardiner, the valiant colonial soldier
who commanded Saybrook Fort in the Pequot War, and also of the
famous Mulford family of Devonshire, England.) She was an active
and patriotic woman, and is said to have baked bread gratuitously
twice daily for the patriot militia, and to have picked up a cannon
ball which fell near her upon her father's farm at the battle of
Springfield. Rachel Wade api:ears as Lockey Rachel Wade in the
church records at Union. The compiler is indebted to his friend
and client, William Elliott Harrison, Esq., of Fort Madison, Iowa,
son of Enos Hampton Harrison (No. 1512), for this resume of his
careful and prolonged researches into the Harrison ancestry.
296 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : —
1510. Aaron Wade Harrison, b. March 1, 1806; d. Dec. 22,
1835; unm.
1511. Abigail Mulford Harrison, b. Feb. 19, 1808; m, Aug.
21, 1832, Ogden Magie, b. June 23, 1808; d. Jan. 26,
1871.
1512. Eno9 Hampton Harrison, b. Feb. 8, 1810 ; d. Dec. 10,
1877; m. (1) June 30, 18H7. Laura B. Porter, d. June
28, 1838; m. (2) Maria Elizabeth (Lewis) Oubberly,
June 17, 1844.
1513. Mary McGarner Harrison, b. Jan. 23, 1813 ; d. May
17, 1877; m. May 4, 1836, William Woodruff, b.
Jan. 24, 1813; d. April 12, 1837; no issue.
1514. Elizabeth Woodruff Harrison, b. Feb. 12, 1816 ; d.
Sept. 8, 1876, unm.
1163. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Eli), born September
2, 1788.
Married :—^\\\\diVi\ Price, May 25, 1810.
Issue : —
1515.
1516.
1517.
1518.
1519.
1520.
1521.
1164. Aaron Wade (son of Eli), born January 3, 1791.
1165. Jane Wade (daughter of Eli), born March 15, 1794.
1167. Samuel Wade (son of Noahdiah).
Married : — I, Nancy Van Kirk.
Married : — II, Rachel Whitehead.
1168. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Noahdiah).
Married : — Daniel Shannon.
1169. Mary Wade (daughter of Noahdiah).
Married: — Andrew Johnson.
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1170. NoAHDiAH Wade (son of Noahdiah), born 1806.
Married: — Martha Wolverton.
1171. Eunice Wade (daughter of Noahdiah), born April
22, 1807.
Married : — Jonas Beard slee, May 12, 1828.
1179. Sylvester Wade (daughter of Jonathan, Jr.), born
February 25, 1770.
Married: — John Dickerson (son of Jonathan).
Issue : —
1522. Eusebia Dickerson, m. Moses Gardner and moved to
Ohio.
1523. Matthias Dickerson.
1524. Abner Dickerson, m. Diadama Meeker.
1525. John Dickerson, m. ; removed to Ohio.
1526. Eliza Dickerson, m. Samuel Bailey, a carpenter of
Springfield, N. J.
1527. Sylvester Dickerson, d. in Ohio, unm.
1528. Hannah Dickerson.
1180. Jemima Wade (daughter of Jonathan, Jr.), born July
12, 1771.
Married : — Demas Harrison. He was born Septem-
ber 10, 1773; died 1849. She died before her
husband, who married secondly, Mrs. Rhoda
Tuttle (daughter of Justus Burnet).
1181. Obadiah Wade (son of Jonathan Wade, Jr.), born
July 6, 1773.
Married : — Nancy Edwards.
Issue :'- —
1529. Joseph Wade, known as "Little Joe," livedNew York.
1530. Charity Wade, m. son of Joseph DeGrroat.
1531. Margaret Wade, m. (1) William Hyatt ; m. (2) Edw.
Berrian.
1532. Eliza Wade, m. Horatio Home.
1533. Abner Wade.
1534. Sally Ann Wade, d. age 6.
298 The Wade Genealogy.
1182. Nathaniel Wade (son of Jonathan, Jr.), born Octo-
ber 18, 1775; died January, 1857.
Married: — Mary Smith of Livingston, N. J., born
January 23, 1779; died 1860.
Issue : — (Born in Orange, N. J.)
1535. Joseph S. Wade, b. April 5, 1797; d. Jan. 19, 1848.
1536. Samuel Wade, b. March 3, 1805 ; d. March 5, 1847,
1537. John D. Wade, b. April 9, 1810.
1538. Calvin Wade, b. July 23, 1813.
1539. Jemima Wade, b. May 2, 1808 ; two husbands; eleven
children.
1540. Phebe Wade, b. July 4, 1800; d. Dec. 17, 1845.
1541. Abby Wade, b. March 21, 1803; d. Sept. 20, 1849, •
1542. Matilda Wade.
1543. Elizabeth Wade, b. Nov. 16, 1801; living 1881; m.
Joseph Kent.
1544. Nancy Wade, b. March 31, 1814; d. 1881.
1545. Uriah Smith Wade, b. "Dec. 9, 1806; m. Phebe Mirick.
1546. Susan C. Wade, b. Jan. 19, 1822; d. Aug., 1855, child-
less ; m. Jas. Marshall.
1547. Mary Wade, b. Jan. 6, 1816.
1548. Rachel Wade, b. March 31, 1818.
Nathaniel Wade was a farmer.
1187. Dorothy Wade (daughter of Jonathan. Jr.), born
September 9, 1785.
Married : — Aaron Dickerson (son of Jonathan). He
died 1832.
No issue.
1190. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Jonathan, Jr. ). born
May 26, 1787.
Married : Claridge.
Issue : —
1550. Mary Claridge, m. William H. .Clark of Rabway,
N. J.
1193. Calvin Wade (son of Jonathan, Jr.), born November
22, 1791.
arried : — Melinda Moore.
He was a shoemaker.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 299
1194. Jonathan Wade (son of Jonathan, Jr.), born July
16, 1793; died November 7, 1859, at Keyport, N. J.
Married : — Lockey Head ley.
Issue : —
1551. Rachel Wade, m. fl) Richard Thorn in New York
City;m. (2) .
1552. A daughter; m. and living in Keyport, N. <T., 1883.
1553. A daughter; m. and living in Keyport, N. J,, 1883.
1196. Demas H. Wade (son of Jonathan, Jr.), born Febru-
ary 9, 1797; died 1820.
Married: — Sarah Townley; she afterwards married
Benjamin Reeves.
Issue : —
1554. Demas H. Wade, posthumous.
As to the Townleys, see Littell's Passaic Valley Genealogies,
pp. 433-443.
1204. Nathaniel Wade, Jr. (son of Nathaniel), born June
14, 1779; died April 5, 1823, of pleurisy.
Married: — Jane McChesney, daughter of Robert
and Mary Ann (Welch) McChesney, born August
8, 1779; died July 8, 1832, of remittent fever.
Issue : —
1555. Jabez Pierson Wade, b. Sept. 22, 1802; d. April 19,
1849, in Montgomery, Orange Co., N. Y.
1556. Julia Ann Wade, b. Oct. 5, 1806.
1557. Sarah Wade, b. Oct. 13, 1813; d. Sept. 24, 1826.
Nathaniel Wade went to New York City in 1803, and re-
turned to Northfield, N. J., about 1810, where he died in an
old residence built about 1740, and used many years by
the family.
1205. Joseph Wade (son of Nathaniel), born 1777; died
June, 1841
Married : — Mary Ann McChesney, daughter of Robert
and Mary Ann (Welch) McChesney, July 18, 1804;
she born 1784, and died March 18, 1864.
300 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : —
1558. Maria Wade, d. 1875, of cancer.
1559. Kobert McChesney Wade, b. July 23, 1813 ; d. Feb.
7, 1884.
1560. Phebe Wade, d. about 1870, unm.
1561. Nelson Wade.
1561a. Sally Wade(?) d. (young)
1206. Phebe Wade (daughter of Nathaniel).
Married: — George W. Combs of Philadelphia.
1207. Hannah Wade (daughter of Nathaniel).
Married : — John Egael of Philadelphia.
1208. Ruth Wade (daughter of Henry Wells), born Janu-
ar)^ 10, 1774; died January 11, 1851.
Married : — Stephen Edwards.
Issue : —
1561b. Calvin Edwards, m. Jemima Wade, (No, 1263.)
And others.
1210. Hamutel Wade (daughter of Henry Wells), born
May 22, 1775; died December 18, ]827.
Married : — Uzal Harrison.
Issue : —
1562. Wells Harrison, m. Ann Cook.
1563. Aaron Harrison, m. Mary Tattle, grand-daughter of
Justus Burnet.
1564. Betsey Harrison, m. Zenas Baldwin.
1565. Margaret Harrison, m. Daniel Pierson.
1566. Lydia Harrison, m. George Williams.
1567. Richard Harrison, m. Maria Burnet.
1214. Wells Wade (son of Henry Wells Wade), born De-
cember 19, 1780; died May 17, 1858.
Married: — Abby (daughter of Jacob Brookfield), died
April 6, 1858.
Issue : —
1568. William Brookfield Wade.
1569. Henry Wellw Wade, b. 1808, Newark, N. J.; d. Ai)ril
24, 1883, at Panama, Iowa.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 301
1570. Jacob Wade.
1571. Jemima Wade.
1572. Melinda Wade.
1573. Nancy Wade.
1574. Mary Wade.
Wells Wade is said to have made counterfeit money,
and finally fled to Canada, where he died. Mrs. Wade lived
with her daughter Nancy after her husband's death.
1225. Sarah Wade (daughter of Obadiah Wade).
Married : — Adrian Ryers.
Issue : —
1575. Adrian Obadiah Eyers, d. at 21; m. .
1576. Hannah Ann Eyers, d. in middle age; m. Charles
Doolittle.
1577. Kate Eyers, a dressmaker, never m. Living in New
York City, 1859.
1226. Daniel Pierson Wade (son of Obadiah), born June
26, 1791; died April 13, 1861.
Married : — Margaret Yerkes.
Issue : —
1578. Hannah Catherine Wade, d. at Montgomery, N. Y.,
1876.
1579. Hester C. Wade.
1580. Adeline S. Wade.
1581. Jacob S. Wade. In Union army; resided N. Y. City,
1582. George H. Wade, m. Mary Van Vliet.
Daniel Pierson Wade is said to have been a wild boy.
He is reported to have run away and went to sea. He is
said to have served on the U. S. S. Constitution in her battle
with H. M. S. Guerriere, August 19, 1812. He lived with
his uncle Benjamin Wade (No. 1063) in Orange Co., N. Y.
1232. Abner Wade (son of Abner Wade).
Married : — Charlotte .
Issue : —
1583. A daughter.
1233. Noah Beach Wade (son of Abner), born June 23,
1783.
302 The Wade Genealogy.
1236. UzAL Harrison Wade (son of Benjamin), born
December 3, 1794; died Marcji 5, 1878. Lived in
Orange Co., N. Y.
Married : M on ell.
Issue : —
1584. Jemima Ann Wade.
1585. Theresa Wade.
1586. John Benjamin Wade.
1587. James Harrison Wade, a carpenter at Middletown,
N. J.
1588. Richard Wade.
1589. Joseph Bradley Wade.
1590. Harriet Elizabeth Wade, m. John Cronk.
1591. Charles Henry Wade.
1243. Benjamin Wade (son of Benjamin), born February
17, 1812.
Married: — March 15, 1844, Sarah Van Velser of New-
ark, N. J.; she born May 1, 1824, and died July
26, 1882.
Issue : —
1593. Sarah Caroline Wade, b. Sept. 20, 1846.
159c}. Frances Amelia Wade, b. Aug. 26, 1850; m. John
Bonnykamper, June 14, 1876.
1594. Fred Allen Wade, b. Nov. 17, 1851; d. May 17, 1854.
1247. Jeptha Wade (son of Andrew), born January 29,
1768; died March 9, 1813.
Married : — Sarah, daughter of Gilbert Allen, June
17, 1790; she born March 29, 1772; died October
18, 1853, at Carmel, Mich. After his death she
married (2) Benoni Ward, March 20, 1816.
Issue : —
1595. Martha Wade, b. Jan. 19. 1791, at Morristown, N. J.;
d. Feb. 20, 1850, at Home, N. Y.
1596. Elizabeth Wade, b. April 29, 1793, at Morristown,
N. J.; d. Feb. 13. 1853.
1597. Phebe Wade, b. March 6, 1795, at Morristown, ~N. J.
1598. Silas Wade, b. Sept. 4, 1797, at Morristown, N. J.; d.
Feb. 19, 1869.
1599. Keziah Wade, b. Aug. 16, 1800, at Morristown, N. J, ;
d. Feb. 15. 1872.
1600. Andrew Wade, b. Aug. 29, 1803, at Morristown, N. J. ;
d. July 8, 1858.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 303
1601. Gilbert A. Wade, b. May 19, 1806, at Romulus, N. Y. ;
d. Sept. 28, 1863.
1602. Sally Ann Wade, b. Nov. 2, 1808, at Romulus, N. Y.
1603. Jeptha H. Wade, b. Aug. 11, 1811, at Romulus, N. Y.
1248. Electa Wade (daughter of Andrew), born Novem-
ber 1, 1771; died May 10, 1843.
Married: — David Edwards, March 1, 1792; he born
January 8, 1767 ; died March 3, 1850.
Issue : —
1604. Rachel Edwards, b. Nov. 26, 1792; d. Jan. 8, 1793.
1605. Searing Wade Edwards, b. Dec. 23, 1794; d. Jan. 3,
1876; m. Feb. 4, 1819, Mary Bockoven; 7 children,
6 living 1881.
1606. Richard Edwards, b. June 7, 1796; d. April 4, 1868;
m. March 1, 1831, Sarah Bryant; 6 children; 1 liv-
ing, 1881.
1607. Martha Edwards, b. Sept. 17, 1798; living 1881, Seneca
Falls; m. March 7, 1820, John Blaine; 8 children;
6 living. 1881.
1608. Andrew Edwards, b. Oct. 4. 1802; d. April 6, 1841, in
Franklin, Mich.; m. Dec. 37, 1837, MaryAnnBurt-
less; had 5 children; 3 living, 1881.
1609. Jeptha Wade Edwards, b. April 16, 1805; d. March
30, 1858; m. Jan. 19, 1830.
1610. David Edwards, b. Dec. 17, 1808, Somerset Co., N.J. ;
d. Nov. 25, 1877, at Horse Heads, N. Y. ; m. Feb. 19,
1831, Sarah Jackson, b Oct. 7, 1810, by Rev. Phi-
lander GiJlett; 1 dau. living 1881, unm.
1611. Asa Gildersleeves Edwards, b. Sept. 1, 1811; d. March
11, 1881; m. Jan. bO, 1834, Margaret Peters, at
Adrian; had 6 children; 3 living, 1881.
1613. Calvin Edwards, b. Dec. 23, 1815; d. July 33, 1816.
1249. Gideon Wade (son of Andrew), born August 11,
1776; baptized July 10, 1777.
1250. Martha Wade (daughter of Andrew,) born Febru-
ary 10, 1780; died February 7, 1842.
Married : — Thompson, son of George Brown, Sep-
tember 6, 1882; he born February 4, 1783; died
November 12, 1842, at Bucyrus, Crawford Co., Ohio.
He removed to Westfield, N. J., and owned a large
distillery establishment there. He left his wife
and children there and then went to Ohio.
304 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : —
1613. Infant, b. March 7, 1803; lived 3 days.
1614. Levyce Brown, b. Dec 18. 1805; lived 8 years, 10
months, 10 days; d. Oct. 20, 1809.
1616 1'^^^^^ (girls), b. March 2, 1809; lived an hour.
1617'. Andrew Wade Brown, b. Sept. 2, 1811; d. July 8,
1875; m. Elizabeth D., dau. of Jesse V. Douglass,
May 16, 1833; she d. Feb. 19, 1846. Second wife,
Lovina Walters, living 1882 in Ohio. Children by
Ist wife: Thompson, Mary, Caroline, George, Eliza,
Jane, Sarah Ann. By 2d wife, 3 children.
1618. Mary Brown, b. Aug. 24, 1816; m. John Keith, July
5, 1838, and had children, Andrew, Martha.
1252. Charles Wade (son of Simon), born December 4,
1796; died November 22, 1869.
Man ted .— Mary ] . Tuttle, March 14, 1836; she born
at Ogdensburg, N. J., August 8, 1815.
/ssue : — (All born at Ogdensburg, N. J.)
1619. Aaron W. Wade, b. Feb. 16, 1839; d. Dec. 24, 1863,
unm.
1620. Samuel T. Wade, b. July 27, 1840; d. unm.
1621. Abby J. Wade, b. June 25, 1843; d. July 18, 1878.
1622. George W. Wade, b. Feb. 2, 1849; d. Dec. 22, 1881,
of consumption; unm.
1623. Lydia E. Wade, b. Feb. 10, 1851; d. Jan. 1, 1879,
1253. Clarissa Wade (daughter of Simon), born January
24, 1787; died February 8, 1832.
Married: — John Buckley; he born ; died at
Hope, Warren Co., N. J.
Issu^ : — (AH born in Hope, N. J.)
1624. Henry W. Buckley, b April 8, 1803; d. June 26, 1839.
1625. Eliza Buckley, b. July 27, 1804.
1626. Lewis Buckley, b. April 26, 1806; d. 1877.
1627. Abigail Buckley, b. May 13, 1808: d. June 1, 1880.
1628. Rebecca Buckley, b. Jan. 22, 1810.
1629. Aaron W. Buckley, b. Sept. 4, 1812; d. Sept. 8, 1865.
1630. Sally Ann Buckley, b. Jan. 22, 1815; d. Jan. 19, 1875.
1631. Mary Jane Buckley, b. June 16, 1817; d. Jan. 20, 1865.
1632. Harriet Buckley, b Nov. 2, 1819; d. Jan. 16, 1874.
1633. Caroline Buckley, b. June 9, 1822; d. Oct. 10, 1823.
1634. Gertrude Buckley, b. Aug. 20, 1830; d. Aug. 20, 1831.
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Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 305
1254. Sarah Wade (daughter of Simon), born June 23,
1780; died June 17, 1870.
Married: — Reuben Buckley.
Issue : —
1635. Simon Buckley, b. April 14, 1808; Sussex Co., N. J.:
d. 1874.
1636. Robert Buckley, b. Oct. 19, 1809, Sussex Co.. N. J.
1637. Edwin Buckley, b. Sept. 30, 1811, Port Jervis, N. Y.
1638. Charles W. Buckley, b. Nov. 8, 1813.
1639. Clarissa A. Buckley, b. May 22, 1818, Port Jervis,
N. Y.; d. Feb. 1, 1852.
1640. Wade Buckley, b. Jan. 1, 1823, Port Jervis, N. Y.
1255. Serein or Searing Wade (son of Simon), born May
5, 1793; died April 3, 1863.
Married: — Ruhama Corey; she born in Sussex Co. ,
N. J., November 15, 179G; died September 13,
1878, at Belvidere, N. J. They moved to Hope,
Warren Co., N. J., in 1852.
Issue : —
1641. Morris Wade. b. Nov. 23, 1820, at Sparta, N. J. ; d.
Sept. 15, 1880; res. Hackettstown, N. J.
1642. Simon Wade, b. Dec. 3, 1822, afSparta, N. J. ; living,
Belvidere, 1881 ; unm.
1643. Charles Wade, b. Oct. 24, 1827, at Sparta, N. J. ; d.
June 20, 1867; res. at Belvidere.
1644. Abbey Jane Wade, b. July 25, 1817, at Sparta, N. J. ;
d. Dec. 3, 1845,
1256. Stephen Wade [/] (son of Joseph), baptized May
20, 1789; died January, 1815.
Married :—Mairch. 23, 1808, Patty Jones.
Issue : —
1645. Patience Caroline Wade, bap. at Hanover, N. J., April
6, 1815.
1646. John S. Wade, bap. at Hanover, N. J., April 6, 1815.
1646a. Lucinda Wade, bap. at Hanover, N. J. , April 6, 1815.
1646b. Child, d. May 14, 1810.
[/] Several corrections are here inserted, thanks to the collections
of Mr. Henry B. Plumb.
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306 The Wade Genealogy.
1258. Patience B. Wade (daughter of Joseph).
Married: — Isaac Riggs\ (Junia", Gideon', Joseph*,
Edward^, Edward'^, Edward Riggs'); he born at
New Vernon, Morris Co., N. J., October 7, 1784;
was a farmer, and was buried at New Vernon,
January 18, 1861.
Issue: —
1647. Sarah Kiggs, d. an infant.
1648. Caroline Riggs, b. about 1812; m. Henry Lewis.
1649. Eliza (or Elizabeth) Eiggs, b. 1814; m. William
Webb of Chester.
After the death of Patience B. Wade, Isaac Riggs mar-
ried (2) April 11, 1816, one Elizabeth Miller (born Decem-
ber 22, 1793, died August 1. 1872), and had issue six
daughters (;;/). The above children are mentioned in the
will of Joseph Wade (No. 1069).
1259. Abigail Wade (daughtei t \ Joseph), born at Mor-
ristown, N. J., 1790 (?) died in Ohio.
Married :—Yeorw2LX^ 7, 1807, John H. Doty at Mor-
fistown, a lineal descendant of the Mayflower pil-
grim; removed in. 1830 to Ohio; probably died and
buried at Mansfield, Ohio. (See The Doty Genealogy,
p. 489.)
Issue: —
1650. Cyrus Doty, d. on the way to Ohio.
1651. Elisha Wade Doty, b. at Albany, N. Y., 1810.
1652. Phebe Doty, m. (1) Julius Rugg; (2) Dr. L. H. Dixon
of Albion, 111.
1653. Louis Doty, m. Harriet Beach.
1654. Harriet Doty, m. William Richmond.
1655. Cynthia Doty, m. Gideon Richmond.
1656. Eliza Doty, m. John Finch.
1657. Charles S. Doty, m. Catharine Young.
1658. Hannah Doty, m. William Scofield of Albion, 111.
(?«) The compiler is indebted to his friend, Mr. J. H. Wallace, for
the above facts as printed in his Riggs Genealogy (1901), No. 86,
p. 40.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 307
1260. Phebe Pierson Wade (daughter of Joseph), born
March 15, 1795; died August 26, 1861.
Married : — I, July 12, 1812, Harvey Douglass, born
June 4, 1789; died May 18, 1825, at Hanover, N.J.
Issue : —
1658a. William Bedford Douglass, b. May 28. 1813; d. Nov.
18, 1899; m. Abby Crane; had 5 children.
1658b. Sarah Caroline Douglass, b. Jan. 13, 1816; d. April
22, 1883; m. Alexander Major; had 4 children.
1658c. f Charlotte Augusta Douglass, b. April 22, 1818; m.
. • I Whitfield Howard; res. Ne'wark, N. J.; had 3
twins. . children.
1658d. I Mary Louisa Douglass, b. April 22, 1818; m. Charles
1^ Edwin Leonard; had 11 children.
1658e. Aaron Wade Douglass, b. Sept. 7, 1822; d. Sept. 38,
1824.
1658f. Harvey Whitefield Douglass, b. Oct. 21, 1824; res.
Newark, N. J.; m. (1) Susan Hulme; had 6 child-
ren; m. (2) Emma Bullifant; had 5 children.
Married: — II, November 10, 1831, Jacob P. Vreeland,
born December 9, 1789; died September 2, 1872. '
1658g. Jane Lavinia Vreeland, b. Oct. 12, 1833; d. Nov. 30,
1833.
1658h. Harriet Lavinia Vreeland, b. May 31, 1834; m. April
2. 1850, Marcus D. L. Dixon; had 2 sons.
1658i. Joseph Henry Vreeland, b. May 5, 1836; m. Mary
Beach; had 8 children.
1261. Calvin Green Wade \n\ (son of Joseph), born March
6, 1799; baptized August 3, 1800; died July 13,
1877, in New York City.
Married: — April 17, 1820, Elizabeth Brown; she died
October 4, 1836.
(n) The compiler, not being a female genealogist (?) of supernatural
accuracy and completeness, desires to chronicle here an omission
which has defied solution. One Calvin Wade enlisted as a private
January 25, 1777, in the 5th troop of Sheldon's Dragoons. He is de-
scribed as a shoemaker from Morristown, N. J., 5 ft. 8 in. high, of
dark complexion, dark hair and dark eyes. He is returned as a
deserter. {^ee Bevolutionary Records of Connecticut, p. 21S.) In
the hope of aiding some worthy D. A. R. "joiner," to attain the
dignity of a "Real Daughter" or "33rd degree Exalted Ragbag " on
this deserter's record, the compiler prints this record of poor Calvin,
for whom war's martial pomp had so little charm. He certainly can-
not be the Calvin chronicled above.
308 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue: —
1659. Samuel Burnet Wade; all traces lost.
1659a. Stephen Nelson William Wade, b. June 15, 1825; d.
May 29, 187V.', in Ulster Co., N, Y.; m. Mary Jane
Seaman; had 5 children.
1659b. Ephraim Wade, d. young.
1659c, John Calvin Green Wade, b. July 4, 1828; d. Feb.
14, 1895, in Brooklyn, N. Y.; m. Susan Rosapaugh;
had 2 children.
1659d. Sarah Jane Beach Wade, d. young.
1659e. Benjamin Wade, d. young.
1659f. Mary Elizabeth Foster Wade, b. Oct. 4, 1836, in New
York City; m. (1) John Loomis; no children; m.
(2) "Edwin Spencer; had 3 children; res. Lacyville,
Wyoming Co., Peun.
Married:— 1\, Sarah Wandell, b. April 6, 1812; died
May 10, 1871, in New York City.
Issue : —
1659g. Melissa Ann Wade, b. July 26, 1837; m. Stephen
Decatur Mangam; had 5 children.
1659h. Phebe Jane Wade, b. Oct. 28, 1839; m. Theodore H.
Rogers; had 5 children.
1659i. Hannah Maria Wandell Wade, b. Oct. 22, 1845; m.
(1) George Edgar Bassett, d. 1872; m. (2) David P.
Lewis, in 1873; no children.
.1659]. Patience Amelia Wade, b. Dec. 7, 1846; d. young.
1659k. Emnia Caroline Douglass Wade, b. Aug. 14, 1847;
res. Newark, N. J.; m. Hudson Kidd, a sailor,
drowned; had 1 child, Hester Kidd; m. (2) Samuel
Tucker, in U. S. postoffice employ at Newark, N.J.
16591. Joseph Alexander Wade. b. July 3, 1850; d. young.
1262, Sarah Todd Wade (daughter of Joseph), baptized
February 14, 1802.
Married: Crane, and lived near Baskingridge,
N.J.
12G3. Jemima Wade (daughter of Joseph), baptized 1792;
died January, 1818.
Married :—]\x\y 4:, 19,1^, Calvin Edwards; born 1794;
died in Michigan, March, 1851.
Issue : —
1659i. Martha Edwards, bap. Oct. 1, 1815; d. April 23, 1816.
Calvin Edwards went to Michigan after the death of his
Elias Wade.
(New Jersey family. No. 1393, p. 314.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 309
wife, and there married again and had two children. He
was the son of Stephen Edwards, who married Ruth Wade
(No. 1208).
1264. Aaron Day Wade (son of Joseph), born 1805-U;
died December 22, 1870, in Newark, N. J.
Married .—]\x\y 14, 1827, Phebe Stites of Newark,
N. J. ; she born there October 18, 1802; died there
July 18, 1872.
Issue : —
1660. Joseph Stites Wade, b. July 16, 1828; d. March 23,
1882, in Newark, N. J. ; m. Au^. 16, 1847, Elizabeth
Silverthorne, b. in England, Sept. 30, 1826; d.
March 23, 1893; bur. at Greenwood Cemetery, N.Y.
1660a. Harriet Elizabeth Wade, b. 1832-3 ; d. 1855-6; m.
May 18, 1849, Alfred LaValla, b. in France, Aug.
16, 1820; res. 1900, Newark, N. J.; had 3 children,
d. infants.
1264a. Joseph Bedford Wade (son of Joseph), baptized
May 20, 1804; died' October 12, 1805, at Hanover,
N.J.
1270. James Wade (son of Jonas), born December 21,
1778, at Union, N. J. ; died March G, 1819.
Married : — (?)
Issue : —
1661. Stephen Wade.
1662. Job Wade.
1272. Phebe Wade (daughter of Jonas), born October 3,
1782, at Connecticut Farms. N. J. ; died August
21, 1867, at Cape May, N. J.
Married .—]u]y 5, 1806, Daniel Wurts, born at Flan-
ders, N. J., August 9, 1779; died May, 1841.
310 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : —
1663. Maria Wade Wurts, b. New York City, May 7, 1807;
d. Atlantic City, Sept. 15,1900; m. 1829, John Muir,
who d. 1870.
1664. William Alfred Wurts, b. April, 1809; m. 1887, Matilda
Steele; d. 1847.
1665. Eev. Edward Wurts, b. Aug., 1810; d. June, 1885.
1666. Charles Wurts, b. Nov., 1812; m. 1843, Anna Wurts;
d. 1889.
1667. Sarah Grandin Wurts, unm.; d. 1902.
1668. Harriet Wurts, unm.
1669. Maurice Alexander Wurts, b. Aug., 1820; d. Dec. 15,
1881; m. 1849, Louise West Woods.
1670. Daniel Smith Wurts, b. July, 1823; d. Aug., 1823.
Daniel Wurts served in the Navy, was in mercantile
business in New^ York, in 1818, when he removed to Louis-
ville, Ky. , and in 1838 removed to Philadelphia. (See also
Chambers' Early Germans in New Jersey, p. 564, and The
Wurts Genealogy.')
1273. — Oliver Wade (son of Jonas), born September 3,
1784; died December 2, 1822.
Married: — Phebe Denman, October 19, 1806; she
born January 9, 1784; died November 26, 1852.
He was deacon of First Presbyterian Church, New-
ark, 1811, and moved to Springfield, N. J., 1816.
Issue : —
1671. Kobert Wade, b. Sept. 27, 1807; d. March 16, 1808.
1672. William Woodbridge Wade, b. Sept. 5; d. Sept. 13,
1809.
1673. Olivia Wade, b. Oct. 9, 1810; d. March 8. 1883.
1674. John Crane Wade, b. June 8, 1813; d. Jan. 15, 1883,
1675. Matthias Denman Wade, b. Oct. 5, 1815; d. Jan. 31,
1818.
1676. Eliza Denman Wade, b. May 13, 1818; d. March 3,
1830.
1677. Oliver Erastus Wade, b. March 26, 1820; d. Oct., 1863.
1678. Mary Tenbrooke Wade, b. July 20, 1822.
1277. Hannah Wade (daughter of Jonas).
Married : — Richard (Robert?) Town ley, June 30-July
2, 1812. He was, born November 16, 1788; died
July 6, 1861.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 311
Issue : —
1678a. Kobert WadeTownley, (o) b. Jul.y 13, 1813; d. Oct. 23;
m. Eliza H., daughter of Johnston Baldwin, Jan.
29, 1839; she b. Oct. 31, 1819.
1678b. Jonas Wade Townley, (o) b. June 8, 1815: m. Orvillie
R. Rose, Oct. 25, 1855; she b. Sept. 25, 1830; both
living, 1883.
1678c. Phebe Ogden Townley, b. April 4, 1818 ; living 1883;
m. Henry Meeker, Nov. 20, 1851; he d. Aug. 31,
1883, age 75.
1678d. Harriet Townley, b. Dec. 14, 1822; living 1883; m,
Alexander McWhorter Ball of Newark, Oct. 13
1842 ; he d. Jan. 20, 1879, age about 61.
]678e. James Townley, (,o) b. Sept. 25, 1826; d. July 16, 1857;
m. Elizabeth Rudisell, Dec. 25, 1849; she d. Aug.
12, 1851; m. (2) Mary A. Williams.
1678f. Richard Townley, b. Aug. 22, 1831; d. March 9, 1848;
unm.
1278. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Jonas), born October
20, 1794; died March 9, 1872.
Married: — David B. Lum, February 18, 1821 ; he born
February 16, 1794; died February 4, 1877.
Issue : —
1678g. Charles Edwin Lum, b. March 1, 1833; m. Minerva
Joanna Bonnell.
1678h. Jane Marie Lum, b. July 28, 1826; d. Sept. 24, 1827.
1678i. Child, b. June, 1827.
1678]. Jonas Wade Lum, b. Nov. 9, 1829; m. Cornelia
Murphy, Oct. 27, 1858; she b. July 35, 1833.
1279. Jane Wade (daughter of Jonas), born April 25,
1797; died September 11, 1874.
Married: — December 28, 1819, Elijah Stites, merchant
of Springfield, N. J., and New York City; he died
October 10, 1857, age 68.
Issue: — (None living in 1853. )
1283. James Wilson Wade (son of James Wheeler), born
at Union, N. J., September 22, 1788; died August
20, 1864.
(o) The above Robert. Jonas and James Townley moved to Fort
Wayne, Indiana, where they were merchants. (See Littell Passaic
Valley Genealogies, pp. 433-443.)
312 " The Wade Genealogy.
Married.— I, Rachel Wade (No. 1114), January 19,
1813; she born July 4(5?), 1787; died August 14,
182,5.
Issue: —
1679. James Bishop Wade, b. Feb. 21, 1814; bapt. Sept. 3,
1817; d. Sept. 29, 1845.
Married:— II, Joanna Bonnell, January 15(17?)', 1826;
she born July 12, .
Issue: —
1680. Joseph Lyon Wade, b. March 4, 1829.
1284. Margaret Bishop Wade (daughter of James
Wheeler), born May 7, 1795, at Union, N. J. .
Married: — John Briant, March 12, 1816; he born
May 10, 1793; died August 27, 1871.
Issue: —
1681. Harriet Wade Briant, b. Sept. 27, 1817; m. Henry
Baldwin, May 24, 1838, who d. July 4, 1880, age 68.
1682. Charles Briant, b. April 27, 1819; d. in infancy.
1683. James Wade Briant, b. Dec. 13, 1820; m. fl) Elizabeth
Howard, Dec. 25, 1841, who d. Nov. 12, 1842, age
20; m. (2) Frances Elizabeth Kerr, March 14, 1845;
b. Feb. 16, 1824.
1684. Caroline Elizabeth Briant, b. Feb. 26, 1826; m. Ira
C. Abbott, April 15, 1847; b. Aug. 8, 1823.
1685. Henrietta Wade Briant, b. Feb. 26, 1825; d. Jan. 13,
1857; m. Horace Doremus, May 1, 1850; d. Jan. 27,
1880, age 56.
1686. Margaret Briant, b. Sept. 1, 1829; m. Mathew L. P.
Thompson, May 1, 1850; b. Jan. 3, 1824.
1687. Sarah Jane Briant. b. Feb. 29, 1832; d. Nov. 29, 1875;
m. Richard Watson, Sept. 22, 1864; b. Sept. 16,
1833.
1688. Frances Matilda Briant, b. Jan. 28, 1837; m. William
N. Woodward, Nov. 1, 1860; b. July 11. 1835.
1689. John Emmons Briant, b. Dec. 2, 1838; m Martha J.
Groves, March 18, 1869; b. July 16, 1850.
1285. David Wade (son of James Wheeler), born at Union,
N. J., December 6, 1797.
Married: — Joanna Wade (No. 1147), (daughter of
Robert), December 18, 1817; died at Trempeleau,
Wis., January 13, 1879; she born September 29,
1796; died November 25, 1880.
I
Phebe Wade.
(New Jersey family. No. 1273, p. 809.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 313
Issue: — (AH livin°r in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin inl881.)
1690. William Thomas Wade, b. Dec. 27, 1818.
1691. Rebecca Pierson Wade, b. Dec. 18, 1820.
1692. Hannah Ann Wade, b. Jan. 22, 1823.
. 1693. Julia Elizabeth Wade. b. Aug. 30, 1825.
1694. Sarah Young Wade, b. Nov. 22, 1827; bapt. Sept. 22,
1838.
1695. Robert Henry Wade, b. May 13, 1830; bapt. Sept. 22,
1838.
1696. David Wheeler Wade, b. Feb. 22,1833; bapt. Sept. 22,
1838; d. May, 1881.
1697. Stephen Thompson Wade, b. March 20, 1835; bapt.
Sei)t. 22, 1838.
1698. Edward Francis Wade, b. Feb. 28, 1839; bapt. June
15, 1839.
1286. William Pierson W-vde (son of James Wheeler),
born at Union, N. J., September 18, 1799; died
December 22, 1846.
Married: — Sarah Young, September 24, 1822; she
born January 4, 1805; living- 1883.
Issue: —
1699. William Wheeler Wade, d. in infancy.
1700. James Bishop Wade, d. in infancy.
1701. Henrietta Thompson Wade, b. Aup:. 21, 1828; unm.
1883.
1702. Harriet Briant Wade. m. Heber S. Hurlbut.
1703. Charles Williams Wade, d. in infancy.
1704. Andrew Jackson Wade, d. in infancy.
1705. Edward Stites Wade, d. in infancy.
1706. Henry Pierson Wade, b. Feb. 26, 1842; unm. 1883.
1707. Sarah Emily Wade, (tlmily E., the only gr. dau. in
family, m. Wm. Henry Liscomb and has one dau.)
1288. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Isaac), born Decem-
ber 15, 1787; died August 1, 1847. She was mur-
dered by a vagrant. (See Goodrich's History of
Wayne Cotmly, Fa., pp. 23 and 91.)
Married: — Rev. Gershom Williams and left no
children. He died several years after his wife.
1289. William Wade (son of Isaac), born November 17,
1789; died January 24, 1875.
314 The Wade Genealogy.
Married: — Susan King of Washington, D. C.
(daughter of Nicholas), January 7, 1823; she
born January 3, 1800; died May 28, 1869.
Issue: —
1708. Nicholas King Wade, b. Oct. 31, 1823, at Washington.
1709. Lois Jane Wade, b. Oct. 9, 1825, at Washington.
1710. Samuel Archer Wade, b. May 8, 1827, at Washington;
d. May 18, 1828, at Washington.
1711. Mary Margaretta Wade, b. July 31, 1820, at Washing-
ton; d. March 6, 1857, at Pittsburg.
1712. Susan King Wade, b. Seot. 6, 1831, at Pittsburg; d.
June 10, 1834, at Pittsburg.
1713. Louisa Child Wade, b. Feb. 14, 1834, at Pittsburg; d.
Nov. 23, 1838.
1714. William Wade, b. Nov. 29, 1837, at Pittsburg.
1715. Elizabeth Stone Wade, b. Dec. 32, 1840, at Washing-
ton.
1716. Davidson King Wade, b. June 4, 1843, at Philadel-
phia.
1290. Phebe Wade (daughter of Isaac), born November
15, 1791; died December 26, 1891, at Irvington,
N.J.
Married:—!, Rich Stites Woodruff, October 7, 1813;
he born October 8, 1791; died November
12, 1814.
Issue: —
1717. William Stites Woodruff, b. Sept. 26, 1814; d. May
24, 1822.
Married: — II, Cyrus Durand, May 16, 1822; he born
February 27, 1787; died September 1, 1868.
Issue: —
1718. Jane Wade Durand, b. April 2, 1823; m. Rev. J. L.
Chapman.
1719. Elias Wade Durand, b. Dec. 12, 1824; m. Emma E.
Averill.
1720. Bervic Durand, b. Oct. 11, 1826; d. March 16, 1827.
1721. Juliette Paradise Durand, b. Dec. 19, 1827; m. W. H.
Sherman.
1721a. Cyrus Bervic Wade, b. July 27, 1835; m. Sarah
Mersereau.
1293. Elias Wade (son of Isaac), born September 25,
1793; died in New York, 1879, 1880.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 315
Married: — Maria vSmith at Springfield, N. J., July
22, 1823; she born February 17, 1802; died
June 20, 1869.
Issue: —
1722. Jane Blakeney Wade, b. May 11, 1834; m. Charles E,
1723. William burand Wade, b. Jan. 18, 1826; d. Jan. 11,
1856, unm.
1724. Elizabeth Mooney Wade, b. Sept. 25, 1828.
1725. Charles Bervic Wade, b. Jan. 8, 1830.
1726. Maria Louisa Wade, b. Aug;. 9, 1831; d. Jan. 27,
1865, in Rome, Italy; m. Alfred Lockwood.
1727. Edmund Isaac Wade, b. May 6, 1834.
Elias was an engraver by trade in New York City; was
a resident of Springfield, 1822. For many years he was a
member of the firm of Grinnell, Minturn & Co., importers,
of New York City. He retired from this firm and from
active business about 1867. He was an old resident of New
York City; at one time in the seventh ward, one of a
" Colony," in which its few surviving members still take
pride. Later he bought a lot and built a house on Amity
Street, being remonstrated with by his friends at the time
for "living so far out of town;" still later (between 1850
and 1860), he purchased the property 22 West 26th Street,
where he spent the remainder of his life.
Some nine years before his death, Mr. Wade suffered a
stroke of paralysis, partially disabling his right side, and
entirely preventing the use of his right arm.
His energy of character is well illustrated by the fact
that shortly thereafter, when over 70 years of age, he
taught himself to write with the left hand. He was a man
of strong character and of untiring energy, a judicious
reader, and a clear and forcible writer, as his business and
social correspondence amply attests. A true type of the
old New York merchant, his name a synonym for honesty
and integrity, he was one whose word was as good as his
bond, and whose success in business depended in no
slightest degree in the smallest deviation from fair and
honorable dealing with his fellow men. He was an ardent
sportsman, one of the original members of the Currituck
316 The Wade Genealogy.
Shooting Club of North Carolina, where for many years,
and as long as his health permitted, he spent a portion of
every winter.
While never actively interested in politics, Mr. Wade
was keenly alive to the importance of good government, —
municipal, state and national, — and in act and speech ever
showed himself ready and able to perform the duties
devolving upon the private citizen under a democratic
form of government. In national politics, he was a "War
Republican."
It is greatly to be regretted that there are available such
meagre details only of a life so full of earnest endeavor
and successful accomplishment.
1296. Mary Brant Wade (daughter of Isaac), born
November 23, 1804; died June 12. 1862, at New
Brighton, Pa.
Married:— ]ohn Webster Wilson, June 20, 1839, in
Allegheny City., Pa.; he born August 23, 1798, in
Hartford Co., Md. ; died 1877.
Issue: — (All born at New Brighton, Pa.)
1728. William Wilson, b. Jan. 7; d. Jan. 28, 1844.
1729. "Wade Wilson, b. April 9, 1846; m. Sarah B. Jackson,
Oct. 26, 1868
1730. Ruth Wilson, b. April 17; d. Nov. 15, 1849.
1297. Issaac Edmundson Wade (son of Isaac), born October
13, 1807; died April 21, 1850, in Houston, Texas.
Married: — Susan Ann Okeley, January 28, 1834, in
Harmony, Pa.; she born February 8, 1814, in
Baltimore, Md.
Issue: —
1731. Lois Amelia Wade, b. Sept. 11, 1835, at Pittsburg;
vmm. 1881; living at New Brighton, Pa.
1732. Charles Isaac Wade. b. Feb. 9, 1838. at Pittsburg.
. • 1733. Isaac Edmundson Wade, b. Jan. 7, 1846, at Houston,
Texas; living at Pittsburg.
See the Okeley Wade Genealogy by Isaac E. Wade (No.
1733).
WiT-LiAM Stitf.s Wade.
(New Jersey family. No 1756, p. 318.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 317
1308. Elizabeth Cook Wade (daughter of Elias), born
October 17, 1808.
Married: — I, Timothy Parsons, February 1, 1829; died
September 11, 1833, ici Montgomery, Ala., aged 33.
Issue: —
1734. Henry Parsons, b. Nov. 6, 1829; d. Nov. 17, 1870; m.
Almira Lockman, Dec. 20, 1853; had five children.
1735. Maria Louise Parsons, twin to 1734, b. Nov. 6, 1829;
d. Sept. 22, 1833.
1736. Eobert W. Parsons, b. Nov. 13, 18—; m. Catherine
White, Aug. 21, 1858; had five children.
1737. Marv Elizabeth Parsons, b. June 4, 1833; d. May 23,
1834.
Married: — II, William Brant in Elizabeth, December
1, 1836; he born December 10, 1808; died October
5, 18(55.
Issue:
1738. Elias W. Brant, b. June 15, 1838; d. Oct. 13, 1864.
173y. William Brant, b. Nov. 28, 1839; m. Malana Russell,
Feb. 22, 1866; had three children.
1740. Francis Brant, b. Aug. 6, 1841; m. Emma Kniffin,
April 23, 1873; had one child.
1743. Edmund Wade Brant, b. Nov. 6, 1844; m. Margaret
Scott, May 23, 1880.
1311. Jonas Wade (son of Uzal), born October 23, 1797;
died May 21, 1868.
Married: — November 21, 1821, Mary (daughter
of Samuel Meeker and Elizabeth [Halsey] his
wife); she born at Springfield, N. J., February 9,
1802; died March 22, 1874.
Issue:— iA.\\ born at Springfield, N. J.)
1742. Eliza Meeker Wade, b. Oct. 1, 1824; d. June 16, 1826.
1743. William Wade, b. Sept. 28, 1826; d. July 31, 1893.
1744. Elijah Stites Wade, b. Jan. 9, 1830.
1745. Phebe Harrison Wade. b. Sept. 14, 1835.
1746. Edward Hart Wade, b. Nov. 25, 18;^7(9?) ; d. Oct. 3 (5?),
1862.
See The Halsey Genealogy, pp. 335, 445-6.
1313. Oliver Wade (son of Uzal), born April 23, 1804.
Married: — Esther B. (rechristened Henrietta when
two 5^ears old), daughter of Moses Thompson,
318 The Wade Genealogy.
Februarys, 1828; she born June 27,1809(10?).
He was a trustee of Springfield Union Academy,
N. J., in 1858.
Issue: —
1747. John P. Wade, b. Jan. 28, 1829; living 1882.
1748. Moses Thompson Wade, b. Jan. 1, 1832; d. Jan. 3,
1832.
1749. Mary Thompson Wade, b. July 14, 1836; d. February
14, 1850.
1750. Israel Wade, b. Nov. 5. 1832; lived four weeks.
1751. Hezekiah Thompson Wade, b. May 11, 1842; d. Jan,
15, 1880; suffocated by coal gas.
1752. Uzal Newton Wade, b. July 14, 1838; d, Feb. 29,
1844.
1753. Emily Hart Wade, b. Aug. 10, 1845; unm; living 1882.
1754. Oliver Wade, b. Sept. 12, 1839; d. June 24, 1843.
See Litt ell's Passaic Valley Settlers, p. 419.
1315. Uzal Newton Wade (son of Uzal), born August
30, 1809; died after 1881.
Married: — Mary Ann Morehouse, December IG, 1847;
she born May 2, 1814. He was a trustee of
Springfield Union Academy, N. J., in 1858.
Issue: —
1755. Israel Harrison Wade, b. March 27, 1849.
1756. William Stites Wade, b. Nov. 20, 1850.
1757. Emma Jane Wade, b. Nov. 7, 1852.
1758. Charles Newton Wade, b. April 1, 1855.
1759. Mary Kate Wade, b. Jan. 12, 1857.
1318. James Wade (son of Robert), born January 12,
1795.
1322. Robert Hinman Wade 2d (son of Robert), b. Jan-
uary 4, 1802; d. August 29, 1822, without issue.
1325. Yellus Hopper Wade (son of Robert), born
November 2, 1808.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 319
1328. James Hinman Wade (son of Nehemiah), born
October 18, 1798; died August 28, 1873.
Married: — Anna Huntsman, December 10, 1832, at
Elizabeth, N. J.
Issue: —
None.
1329. George Washington Wade (son of Nehemiah),
born May 11, 1800; died January 10, 1882. .
Married: — Charity Paine.
Issue: —
None.
1330. Nehemiah Wade (son of Nehemiah), born February
7, 1803; all traces lost.
1331. Alexander Hamilton Wade (son of Nehemiah),
born July 16, 1805; died May 15, 1893.
Married: — Mary Ann Wood, June 6, 1835.
Issue: —
1760. Mary Wade, b. June 8, 1836; d. March 7, 1837.
1761. Franklin Wade, b. Jan. 20, 1838.
1763.. George Washington Wade, b. May 16, 1840,
1763. Harrison Wade, b. Sept. 6, 1843; d. May 26, 1875.
1764. Henry C. Wade, b. Jan. 21, 1846.
1765. Eliza T. Wade, b. Sept. 24, 1849.
1766. Mary L. Wade, b. June 25, 1852.
1767. John Wade, b. May 13, 1854; d. July 4, 1855.
1335. Patience Wade (daughter of Caleb).
J/<a!rr?V«'.— Stephen Wade (No. 1122).
1330. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Caleb).
Married: — Stephen Wade (No. 1122).
Issue : —
1770. Phebe Wade, b. May 1, 1815; d. Jan. 28, 1871; m,
March 4, 1836, Alexander LattaShaw; he b. April
7. 1817; d. Aug. 17, 1881; had five children.
320 The Wade Gemealogy.
1339. David Wade (son of David Everett), born Septem-
ber 19, 1788; died April 20, 1825.
Married: — I, Mary Mansfield, June 12, 1812; she b.
June 14, 1792; died April 20, 1825.
Issue: —
1771. John Mansfield Wade, b. May 13, 1813; d. 1861.
1772. Mary Wade, b. April 30, 1816.
1773. David Everett Wade, b. Oct. 15, 1818; m. St. Louis
lady; no children.
1774. Joseph Wade, b. Jan. 28, 1831 ; m. Jane McOormick,
who d. 1869.
1775. Harriet Wade, b. March 31. 1823.
Married: — II, Ann Bans.
Issue: —
1776. Louisa Wade.
David was educated at Baskingridge, N. J., and then
returned to Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied law with Judge
Burnet.
1340. Nehemiah Wade (son of David Everett), born 1795;
died July 24, 1879.
Married: — I, Margaret Wallace.
Issue: —
1777. Mary Wade.
1778. Kobert Wallace Wade.
1779. David Everett Wade, d. March 10, 1881.
1780. Nehemiah Chambers Wade.
1781. Stephen Wade.
Married: — II, Mrs. Jane Dick.
Issue : —
1782. Sarah Jane Wade.
1341. Mary Wade (daughter of David Everett), born
November 30, 1797; died November 16, 1871.
Married: — Dr. David Oliver, February 22, — ;
he born May, 1792, at Marietta, Ohio; died June
16, 1869. Dr. David Oliver studied medicine at
Cincinnati and practiced in Cincinnati and Brook-
ville, Ind. He was captain of a company organized
Son of 1762.
(P. 319.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 321
to fight Indians; was captured by the Indians,
but having healed some of them was made a chief
and had his name burned upon his breast. Died
at Oxford, Ohio, where he had lived for some
years previous, and was buried in Spring Grove
Cemetery at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Issue: — (Eleven children; five died in infancy.)
1783. David Wade Oliver, b. Dec. 19, 1819; m. Mary Har
rison, Dec. 1 1853; had two children.
1784. Melancthon Wade Oliver, b. Dec. 27, 1824; m. Anna
H. Gere, June, 18.'i0; had four children.
1785. Alexander Launcelot Oliver, b. May 4, 1822; d. April
18, 1868.
1786. Susan Ann Oliver, b. Dec. 13, 1828; m. Rev. Dr.
James Call Brookes, May 2, 1854; had five children.
1787. Warner Symmes Oliver, b. Sept. 27, 1840; m. Rev.
Alexander H. Young, March 16, 1869; had three
children ; living 1883.
1788. Sarah Everett Oliver, b. Sept. 27, 1840; m. Rev.
Alexander H. Young, March 16, 1869; had three
children; living 1883.
1342. Sarah Everett Wade (daughter of David Everett),
born October 23, 1800; died September 1, 1880.
Married: — Dr. Benjamin Franklin Bedinger, June
29,1820; he born June 14, 1797; died September
7, 1871.
Issue: —
1789. Everett Wade Bedinger, b. Sept. 8, 1830; m. (I)
Sarah E. Lucas. June 1, 1852; m. (2) Anna M.
Bilmyer, March 16, 1869; had ten children.
1790. George Michael Bedinger, b. May 19, 1827; m.
Hannah Fleming, Sept. 1, 1850; had eight children.
1791. Daniel Bedinger, b. July 13, 1835; m. Mary Cilley,
Dec. 25, 1860; had nine children.
1792. David Bedinger, b. Jvily 12, 1839; d. March 13, 1874;
m. Elizabeth Cilley, Feb. 5, 1862; had six children.
1793. Olivia Morgan Bedinger, b. Feb. 11, 1824; d. Sept.
14, 1858; m. (1) Andrew S. Todd, Feb. 13, 1845; m.
(2) George W. Ransom, Sept. 2, 1854; had one
child.
1794. Benjamin Franklin Bedinger, b. Oct. 12, 1843; d.
Sept. 14. 1868; m. Hattie Cilley, May 19, 186a; had
three children.
[21]
322 The Wade Genealogy.
1343. Mei.ancthon Smith Wade (son of David Everett),
born December 2, 1800; died August 11, 1868.
Married: — I, Ehza Armstrong, 1821; she born
February 4, 1804; died October 27, 18G1.
Issue:
1795. Mary Wade, b. Oct. 22, 1826.
1796. Melancthon Armstrong "Wade, b. April 1, 1832; d.
Jan. 15, 1865.
1797. Fanny Wade, b. Nov. 28, 1835; d. July 7, 1832.
1798. Anna Wade, b. Dec. 9, 18;^9.
1799. John Wade, b. Feb. 19, 1842.
Married: — II, Mary Stone, June, 1864.
Melancthon Smith Wade was educated in Cincinnati, O.,
and became a successful dry goods merchant, retiring from
business in 1840. He was an active officer of militia, at-
taining the rank of brigadier-general, and on October 1, 1861,
was commissioned as a bridadier-general of United States
Volunteers. He was the first post commander of Camp
Dennison, Ohio, but resigned from the army March 18, 1862,
on account of feeble health. He was interested in horti-
culture, and was an active, public-spirited citizen. He died
at Avondale, near Cincinnati, Ohio.
1344. Su?AN Ann Wade (daughter of David Everett),
born January 22, 1805; died September 14, 1852.
Married: — Alexander Guy.
Issue: —
1800. Wilson Theophilus Guy, b. March 81, 1831; m. Mary
Graves; had two children.
1801. Sarah Everett Guy, b. March 11, 1833; d. April 16,
1872; m. Rev. Charles Peabody, April 22, 1863; had
one child.
1802. Mary Charlotte Guy, b. Aug. 2, 1836; m. Frederick
Maltby, Jixoe 3, 1857; had five children.
1803. Edward Alexander Guy, b. Aug. 20, 1838; m. Mrs.
Hogans.
1804. David Wade Guy, b. May 20, 1842; m. Anna Brande,
April 10, 1867; had one child.
1805. William E. Guy. b. Dec. 22, 1844.
Wade of New JtRSEV and Ohio. 323
1345. Stephen J. Wade (son of David Everett).
J/flrr/>rf'.— Harriet Sloy Ramsay, January 29, 1835;
she born October 17, 1817; died June 18, 1870.
Issue: —
1806. Mary Elizabeth Wade, b. Nov. 24, 1838; d. Dec. 18.
1889.
1807. Charles Oldest Wade.
1838. Samuel Ramsaj' Wade, b. Nov. U, 1843; d. Aug. 28,
1871.
1809. Harriet Ramsay Wade, b. 1844; d. 1844.
1810. William James Wade, b. May 12, 1847; d. March 16,
1870.
1811. Stephen Jones Wade, twin to 1810, b. May 12, 1847;
d. 1848.
1812. Stephen Jones Wade, 2d.
1813. Everett Jones Wade, b. Dec. 24, 1850; d. at Oxford,
Ohio.
1814. Annie Marshall Wade.
1815. Flora Harrison Wade, b. 1855; d. Sept. 11, 1882, at
Cleveland, Ohio.
13-46. Mary B. Wade (daughter of Ezekiel), born Feb-
ruary 13, 1793; died August 24, 1843.
Married: — John Manly Dow; he born 1793, at Han-
over, N. J.
Issue :
1816. William W. Dow, b. June 5, 1818, at New York.
1817. Abigail E. Dow. b. April, 1823; died 1824.
1818. Sylvester M. Dow, b. Sept. 8, 1824; living in 1885 at
Nannet. N. J.
1819. John Melmoth Dow, b. June 2, 1827; 1885 general
agent Pacific Mail Steamship Co. , Panama, Central
America.
1347. William Woodruff Wade (son of Ezekiel) , born
July 12, 1795; died September 26, 1843.
Married: — I, Frances Betts of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1818.
Issue: —
1820. Theodore Wade, b. 1820: d. March 1, 1863; unm.
1821. Mary Wade, b. 1822;- d. Aug., 1864.
1822. William W. Wade, b. 1824 ; living 1885 at Covington,
Married:— II, Eliza C. Tennis, June 22, 1837, in
Covington, Ky. ; she born July 18, 1808; daughter
324 The Wade Genealogy.
of Capt. John Tennis, who served in the war of
1812; she living 1885, at Indianapolis, Ind.
Issue:
1823. Abigail Elizabeth Wade, b. May 27, 1838; d. Sept. 27,
1842.
1824. Ellen Merry Wade, b Oct. 28, 1841; Hving 1885 at
Chicago, 111. ; m. William Engs of Newport, K. I.
1825. Tennis Woodruff Wade, b. March 31, 1844; hving 1885
at Louisville, Ky.
1348. David E. Wade (son of Ezekiel), born January 6,
1797; died February 26, 1832.
Married.— ^nXy 27, 1820, Eliza Wright of New York
City; she born December 28, 1800; living in 1885
in New York Cit5^
Issue: —
1826. William W. Wade, b. Sept. 18, 1822; d. July 23, 1884.
1827. John R. L. Wade, b. May 8, 1821; d. Aug. 3, 1863.
18^8. David E. Wade, b. March 19, 1824; living 1885 in
Elizabeth, N. J.
1829. Abigail E. Wade, b. Feb. 15, 1826; living 1885 in New
York City.
1830. Margaret W. Wade, b. May 17, 1828; hving 1885 in
New York City.
1831. Mary I. Wade, b. Aug. 11, 1830; d. April 27, 1832.
1832. Frances Wade, b. June 27, 1882; died April 9, 1833.
1349. Eliza L. Wade (daughter of Ezekiel), born Decem-
ber 2, 1799; died July 16, 1878.
Married: — March, 1821, Jas. T. Spear; he born Octo-
ber 1, 1795, at Belleville, N. J. ; died July 12, 1867.
Issue: —
1833. John Spear, b. Sept. 20, 1823; living 1885 in Belle-
viUe, N. J.
1834. Abigail Wade Spear, b. April 8, 1827; d. Dec. 29, 1833.
1835. Alfred Wade Spear, b. Sept. 9, 1828; living 1885 in
New York City.
1350. Jane L. Wade (daughter of Ezekiel), born March
30, 1801 ; died August 10, 1877.
Married: — James Housman, 1826, at Hackensack,
N. J. He died March 30, 1850.
(See The Bergen Genealogy^ p, 267. )
W. Newton Wade.
(New Jersey family. Son of 1756, p. 318.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 325
1351. Noah Wade (son of Ezekiel), born July 16, 1804;
died January, 1807.
1352. Sarah A. Wade (daughter of Ezekiel), born March
17, 1806; died July 17. 1872.
Married: — November 24, 1824, Abram Housman ;
he born at Hackensack, N. J., March 15, 1801;
died September 13, 1862.
Issue : —
1836. James Housman. b. Sept. 22. 1825 ; d. Oct. 18, 1875.
1837. Ezekiel W. Housman, b. Oct. 14. 1827; d. Sept. 1,
1875.
1838. Jane W. Housman, b. Nov. 17, 1831; d. Aug. 1, 1845.
1839. Catherine A. Housman, b. Dec. 5, 1834 ; d. April 14,
1835.
1840. Eliza S. Housman, b. Aug. 13, 1836 ; resided at Belle-
ville. N. J.
1841. Catherine M. Housman, b. Oct. 7, 1840; d. Oct. 28,
1871.
1842. Susan M. Housman, b. Oct. 2, 1842 ; resided 1885 at
Port Richmond, Staten Island, N. Y.
(See The Bergen Genealogy^ p. 267.)
1353. Abigail H. Wade (daughter of Ezekiel), born 1807-
1810.
Married: — Isaac Ward at Schoharie, N. Y.
Issue : —
1843. Sarah Ward, living 1885 in West Brighton, Staten
Island, N. Y.
1844. Mary Ward living in Ionia, N. Y.
1845. Mary B. Ward.
1846. Abigail W.' Ward.
.r..- >- - -1847. Martin I. Ward, living 1885 in Sheepshead Bay,
Long Island, N. Y.
1354. Ezekiel Wade (son of Ezekiel), born February 11,
1811; died November 21, 1897.
Married : — April 28, 1834, Susan Throckmorton; she
born June 10, 1810, at Shrewsbury, N. J.; died at
South River, N. J., November 5, 1900.
326 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : —
1848. Mary A. Wade, b. Jan. 22, 1835; d. March 22, 1836.
1849. Abigail W. Wade, b. Feb. 26, 1837; d. Jan. 26, 1840.
1850. David E. Wade, b. Sept. 15, 1840; living 1885, South
Kiver, N. J.
1851. Ezekiel H. Wade, b. Jan. 13, 1844; living 1885, at Cleve-
land, O.
1852. John A. Wade, b. May 7, 1848 ; living 1885, at South
River, N. J.
1369. Thomas Morrell Wade (son of Benjamin), born
July 21, 1796; died February 9, 1854, at Lexington,
Va. , where he was a merchant and coppersmith.
Married: — Mary Bear of Virginia, September 21,
1826; she born May 13, 1802; died December 12,
1875.
Issue : — (All born at Lexington, Va.)
1853. Benjamin Franklin Wade, b. Nov. 1, 1827.
1854. Anne M. Wade, b. April 10, 1830.
1855. Frances Louisa Wade, b. Aug. 25, 1832; d. June 6,
1882.
1856. Horace Morrell Wade, b. June 18. 1835; d. June
12, 1901.
1857. Mary B. Wade, b. March 8, 1837; d. May 10, 1858.
1858. Algernon S. Wade, b. March 16, 1840; d. June 3, 1898.
1859. Thomas Morrell Wade, b. Dec. 13, 1842.
1370. Jacob Brush Wade (son of Benjamin), born 1799 at
Brooklyn, N. Y.; died at Rochester, N. Y. , Febru-
ary, 1874.
Married : — Mary Jane Doty (No. 10179 in The Doty
Genealogy^ and a lineal descendant of the Mayflower
pilgrim of that name.)
Issue: —
1860. Son.
1861. Son.
1862. Son.
1863. Son.
1864. Son.
1865. Son.
1866. Mary Elizaoeth Wade, b. at Hancock, Mass., May
3, 1845.
(See The Doty Genealogy, p. 757.)
Wade of New Jersey and Chio. 327
1371. Henrietta B. Wade (daughter of Benjamin), born
1802, at Elizabeth, N. J.
Married: — Joshua Bunting, February 7, 1832, at Phil-
adelphia, Pa. He was a wholesale oil merchant at
South Wharves, Philadelphia, Pa., and a Methodist
Quaker. (/)
Issue: — (All born in Philadelphia, Pa.)
1867. Thomas Crowell Bunting, b. Nov. 7, 1832; m. Eliza-
beih C. Douglas, of Mauch Chunk, Pa. ; had 4
children in 1883.
1808. Mary Bunting, b. March 27, 1835; m. Wm. H. Wolff,
M. A., of Chambersburg, Pa.; had 3 children.
1869. Elizabeth Bunting, b. May 12, 1831; an artist of
sculpture and painting, resided in Philadelphia, Pa. ,
1883; m. Horace M. Wade (No 1856).
1870. Joshua Bunting, b. Dec. 1, 1837; d. Dec. 19, 1883; m.
Annie M. Joues; had 4 children.
1372. Anna Morian Wade (daughter of Benjamin), born
at Elizabeth, 1805.
Married: — Capt. Andrew D. Evans of the merchant
service. He was a Presbyterian.
Issue: —
1871. .
1373. Elizabeth Vincent Wade (daughter of Benjamin),
born 1809, at Elizabeth, N. J.
Married: — John A. Place of Philadelphia, Pa., in
1832, a dry goods merchant.
Issue: —
1872. Charles Place, b. 1835; d. 1836, at Philadelphia, Pa.,
of croup.
1873. Thomas Crowell Place, b. 1841, d. March, 1861, of
consumption.
(p) He was descended from an old and famous family of the Society
of Friends. His earliest American ancestor was Samuel Bunting (the
son of Anthony and Ellen), of Matlock, Derbyshire, England, who
emigrated to America in 1678 and settled at Crosswick's Creek near
Burlington, N. J. He was an accredited minister of the Society of
Friends and married Mary Foulke, the daughter of Thomas Foulke,
who was one of William Penn's commissioners to treat with the
Indians. His numerous descendants have been described and record-
ed ina MS. Genealogy, now in the possession of Mr. Douglass Bunting,
of W*ilkes Barre, Pa.
328 The Wade Genealogy.
1874. Margaret Lee Place, b. 1844; m. Lucien H. Berry of
firm of London, Berry & Orton, Philadelphia, Pa.
He was a machinist of that firna.
1875. John Augustus Place, b. 1849; d. 1877, of consumption;
commission grocer.
1876. Susan Louisa Place, b. 1847; d. Sept., 1876, of con-
sumption.
1877. William Veach Place, b. 1848; m. Nettie Buzby. He
was a machinist.
1374. George Washington Wade (son of Benjamin
Wade).
Married: .
He was a cabinet maker; enlisted 1861 in Baker's
Pennsylvania Regiment; was taken prisoner at Antietam
and died in Andersonville Prison, Ga., "where valor proud-
ly sleeps."
1375. Benjamin Wade (Benjamin), died 1846, in New
York City.
Married: .
Issue: —
1878. Mary Crowell Wade, b. 1837; d. 1856, of consumption.
1879. George Wade.
1391. Mary Denman Wade (daughter of Col. John),
born October 14, 18'05; died after 1849.
Married:— ^o\\x\. Richards, August 31, 1821. He died
July, 1874.
Issue: —
1880. Mary Caroline Richards, b. Jan. 3, 1823; m. E. A.
Grossman, Jan. 2, 1842.
1881. Sarah Elizabeth Richards, b. Sept. 3, 1835; m. W. D.
Shipman, Dec. 3, 1846.
1882 Samuel Richards, b. Sept. 23, 1827; m. E. M. Abell,
Oct. 31, 1850.
1883. John Wade Richards, b. Sept. 6, 1829; m. Martha
Nelson, Oct. 15, 1851.
1884. James Gills Richards, b. Nov. 13, 1831; m. Mary F.
Moses, Oct. 27, 1859.
1885. Charlotte Wade Richards, b. Dec. 27, 1833; m. M. H.
Ayers, Oct. 1, 1857.
1886. Charles Edward Richards, b. July 14, 1836; m. M. A.
Watts, June 6, 1861.
George Washington Wade.
(New Jersey family. No. 1763, p. 319. !
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 329
1887. Matilda Ann Bichards, b. June 20, 1839; d. Feb. 18,
1876; m. A. E. Parkhurst, Oct. 6, 1858.
1888. Henry Hoyt Eichards, b. Jan. 18, 1842; m. Eebecca
Higgins, Oct. 29, 1868.
1889. Seaman Parsell Eichards, b. July 22, 1844; m. (1)
Eliza Y. Clark, Sept. 15, 1864; m. (2) Elizabeth
Dane, June 28, 1868.
1890. Ella Virginia Eichards, b. Aug. 5, 1849; d. Oct. 18,
1851.
1392. Susan M. Wade (daughter of Col. John), born June
9, 1807.
Married: Cills, who went to San Francisco
about 1875 and died soon after at her eldest son's.
Issue:
1891. James H. Cills, living in Colorado 1880.
1892. John W. Cills, living in Colorado 1880.
1893. Octavius L. Cills, living in Minnesota 1880.
1393. Phebe Dean Wade (daughter of Col. John) born
May 20, 1809.
Married : — Octavius Longworth, December 30, 1830.
1395. Charlotte L. Wade (daughter of Col. John), born
September 30, 1813, at Springfield, N. J.
Married : — Silas R. Beebe, September 19, 1835, at the
residence of Col. John Wade, her father; he born
October, 1811.
Issue : —
1894. Walton Beebe, b. May 22, 1887; m. Lizzie A. Sharp.
1895. Charles Beebe, b. Feb. 10, 1839; m. A. Josephine
Lutton.
1896. Adelaide Beebe, b. Nov. 23, 1841; m. Henry M.
Evans.
1897. Charlotte Beebe, b. March 30, 1843.
1898. Silas Edwin Beebe, b. Nov. 27, 1844; m. Helen L.
Tift.
1899. Jane Wade Beebe, b. April 4, 1848; d. May 15, 1851.
1900. John Wade Beebe, b. Nov. 22, 1850; m. Effie Earle.
1901. Elizabeth H. Beebe, b. Dec. 26, 1852.
1902. Hannah R. Beebe, b. Sept. 30, 1855; m. George A.
' Chapman.
330 The Wade Genealogy.
139G. Jane W. Wade (daughter of Col. John), born Jan-
uary 17, 1816; died June 25, 1847, at Baltimore,
Md'
Married : — Samuel E. Kice of Baltimore, Md., Ma}^
11, 1835; he died April 25, 1873.
Issue : —
1903. Susan Rice. b. Feb. 13, 1836; d. same day.
1904. John Wade Rice, b. Oct. 3, 1837; m. Sophia Mantz,
April 28, 1859.
1905. Sarah Jane Rice, b. Dec. 29, 1839; d. Jnly 13, 1841.
1906. Edwin Rice, b. May 13, 1844; d. Aug. 27, 1846.
1412. Andrew Wade (son of James), born 1800; died at
Chester, Pa., March 3, 1854. A member of the
Pennsylvania Legislature in 1849.
Married: — Eliza Oarlock, February 22, 1821 ; she born
1803; died at Netherwood, N. J., February 24.
1883.
Issue : —
1907. James Wesley Wade.
1907a. John Chetwood Wade.
1907b. Anna Maria Wade; m. Megie.
1413. Phebe Wade (daughter of James), died at Seneca
Falls, N. Y,
Married: — John Leak.
Issue : —
1908. (?)
1416. Matilda Wade (daughter of Thompson), born
August 11, 1811.
Married : — William Robb, February 25, 1836; he born
March 6, 1810.
Issue : —
1909. Margaret Hobart Robb, b. Nov. 26, 1836; m. Oct. 25,
1860, Nicholas H. Duncan, b. April 6, 1838; d. June
27. 1874
1910. John Newton Robb, b. Feb. 23, 1838; d. March 19,
1839.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 331
1911. John Thompson Kobb, b. Nov. 13, 1839; m. Oct. 11,
1865, Anna M. Allison, b. July 9, 1842; d. Nov. 9,
1866; m. (2) April 16, 1878, Elizabeth Adams, b.
Dec. 9, 1847.
1912. William Lewis Kobb, b. Jan. 22, 1846; m. Nov. 23,
1871, Laura Guild, b. Sept. 18, 1853.
1913. James Kyndon Robb, b. July 4, 1853; m. Sept. 22,
1875, Caroline Z. Zulick, b. March 15, 1856.
1914. Edward Woodruff Eobb, b. July 4, 1853; d. Aug. 16,
1853.
1417. Mary Ann Wade (daughter of Thompson), born
July 9, 1813; died April 20. 1893; buried at Union,
N. J. " Faithful unto death."
Married :—V)2iV\^ E. Woodruff. February 9, 1837;
he born October G, 1807; died May 18, 1882.
Jssue : —
1915. Theodore Woodruff, b. Feb. 28, 1848; bapt. Sept. 22,
1838; d. Oct. 29, 1842.
1916. Jane Louisa Woodruff, b. June 18, 184! ;bapt. Sept. 18,
1841: d. 1841.
1917. William Thompson Woodruff, b. Feb. 2, 1845; bapt.
June 7, 1845; d. June 7, 1845.
1418. Matthias Thompson Wade (son of Thompson)^ born
June 13, 1815.
Married: — Hannah M. Parcell, March 26, 1840; she
born January 16, 1821.
Jssue : —
1918. Martin Luther Wade, b. April 19, 1843; d. Jan. 29,
1872.
1919. Mary Emma Wade, b. Oct. 16, 1844.
1419. Catherine Harvey Wade (daughter of Thompson),
born October 15, 1818.
Married : — July 20, 1854. John B. Price of San Jose,
Cal.; he born August 4, 1819
Issue : —
1920. Annie Robarts Price, b. April 8, 1861.
332 The Wade Genealogy.
1420. Lewis Harvey Wade (son of Thompson), born June
9, 1820.
Married : — March 5, 1878, Ann F. Rivers of Union,
N. J., born March 29, 1822.
Issue : —
None.
Mr. Lewis H. Wade resides with his wife and sister at
Union, N. J., 1902; has filled several public offices with
honor and dignity, and as the head of the family on the
old homestead, the compiler gratefully acknowledges, has
been of material assistance in the compilation of the present
work.
1421. James Monroe Wade (son of Thompson), born April
1, 1822; died December 22, 1885, at Union, N. J.
Married: — Elizabeth Burnett, January 1, 1850, at
L^nion, N. J.; she born February 21, 1825; died
May 21, 1900.
Issiie : —
1922. Daniel Burnett Wade, b. Aug. 1, 1861.
1432. Abner Clark Wade (son of Abner), born October
29, 1787.
Married: — Mary Sayre, January 14, 1809; she born
1791; died February 24, 1870.
Issue : —
1923. Sarah Wade, b. Jan. 22, 1810; d. Dec. 9, 1872; bapt.
Sept. 3, 1817; m. 1828, William Devine; had 5
children; living, George, b. 1828.
1924. Sarah Wade, b. Oct. 19, 1813; Uving, 1885: unm.
1925. Clarissa Wade, b. Aug. 2, 1816.
1926. Ehzabeth Wade, b. April 11, 18l8;bapt. June 15, 1819.
1927. Carol ne Wade, b. May 10, 1821; d. April 28, 1880: m.
(1) Feb. 24, 1847, Joseph Boggs, d. 1861; m. (2) July
17, 1872, John Wiser; no children.
1928. Emma Wade, b. Aug. 2, 1823; d. Dec. 9, 1861.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 333
1434. Robert Morris Wade (son of Abtier), born May 28,
1792; died May 7, 1883.
Married: — Dorcas Burnett, August 27, 1815; she
born November 11, 1796.
Issue : —
1930. Eliza Wade, b. Feb. 10, 1816; d. Juue 19, 1878; m.
Andrew Jackson Headley, Jan. 12, 1837.
1931. Julia Wade. b. April 15, 1818; d. July 5, 1865; m.
William Shannon, her cousin.
1932. Mary Clark Wade, b. July 15, 1820; m. Aaron Car-
penter, March 7, 1839.
1933. Isaac Oliver Wade, b. Dec. 25, 1822.
1934. Jane W-^de, b. March, 1835; d. in infancy.
1935. William Wallace Wade, b. Feb. 3, 1837.
1936. Albert Barnes Wade, b. Sept. 1, 1839; d. Feb. 3, 1856.
1937. Martha Ann Wade, b. March 1, 1832; d. Feb. 28, 1856.
1938. Morris Wade, d. in infancy.
1939. Francis Marion Wade, b. Oct. 29, 1835; d. Aug. 12,
1 8o8.
1940. Sarah Adelia Wade, b. July 28, 1838.
1435. Fanny Wade (daughter of Abner), born June 10,
1794.
Married: — November 19, 1812, William S. Van Court,
born November 1, 1791; died July, 1841.
Issue : —
1941. Mary Ann Van Court, b. Aug. 29, 1814; m. Oct. 1,
1833, William F. Bennett.
1943. Daniel Willites Van Court, b. Aug. 13, 1816; m., 18o5,
Sarah Van Court.
1943. William H. Van Court, b. Dec. 12, 1818; m., 1845,
Kate Ostrom
1944. Elizabeth S. Van Court, b. April 14, 1817; m. Aug.
26, 1837. FordC. Skinner.
1945. Hannah Van Court, b. Feb. 2, 1820.
1946. Robert Morris Van Court, b. Oct. 9, 1824; m. Nov.,
1847, Jane Taylor.
1947. Margant Van court, b. Nov. 12, 1822; m., Nov., 1847,
George Shephard.
1948. John Wade Van Court, b. Aug. 28.1826; m., 1848,
Elizabeth Lynes.
1949. Theoflore L. Van Court, b. Aug. 6, 1828: m., March,
1850, Emma Brockway.
1950. Hannah Van Court, b. August, 1830.
1951. Frances Jane Van Court, b. Nov. 19, 1831 ; m., March
26. 1850, David Birrell; b. Dec. 12, 1828.
1952. Sarah Van Court, b. d.— .
1953. Child.
334 The Wade Genealogy.
1438. Homer Wade (son of Abner), born March 1, 1801.
Married : — Julia Reeve King, January 3, 1822.
Issue .-—(Mostly live in Irvington, N. J.)
11154. Caroline Wade.
1955. Amanda Durand Wade. b. March 24, 1824.
1956. Harriet Amelia Wade. b. May 30, 1826.
1957. Mary Clark Wade, b. Nov. 7, 1828.
1958. Sarah Ann Wade, b. Dec. 14, 1830.
1443a. The Reverend Dwight B. Hervey B. D. (son of Julia
Wade Herve)'), born June 4, 1834; died at Mount
Vernon, O., January 21, 1902.
Married: — Mary Elizabeth Reeder, September 19,
1861, at Newark, O. ; she born April 29, 1836.
Issue : —
1956. Walter Lowrie Hervey, b. Sept. 28, 1862.
1956a. Henry Dwight Hervey, b. Nov. 8, 1864.
1956b. Clifford Reeder Hervey, b. Aug. 14, 1867.
1956c. Mary Babcock Hervey, b. July 15, 1869.
1956d. George Eells Hervey, b. Feb. 17, 1872.
"The Reverend Dwight B. Hervey was the son of the
Reverend Henry Hervey, one of the most able and influen-
tial members of the Presbyterian Synod of Ohio, being then
pastor of a large congregation, principal of the Martinsburg
Academy and the Martinsburg Female Seminary, both
of which he founded, and editor of a religious periodical.
'•Dwight B. Hervey, after leaving the academy, grad-
uated at Washington and J eff erson College in 1858, and after-
wards pursued his theological studies at Princeton and the-
Western Theological Seminary, graduating in May, 1861.
" He had already given evidence of such remarkable abil-
ity that he was immediately called as pastor of the Presbyter-
ian Church of Mount Vernon, in which position he remained
for about thirteen years, and in which he verified all the
high hopes which had been formed of him. In the pulpit
he was earnest, logical and eloquent; as a pastor he was
faithful, industrious and efficient, and as a citizen he was
always kind and courteous. He was beloved by all who
knew him well and highly esteemed by the entire
community.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 335
" In 1874 he resigned this pastorate, his people accepting^
his resignation with unanimous regret. The succeeding
eighteen months he spent at Jersey in charge of that con-
gregation. He then accepted a call to the pastorate of the
Presbyterian Church at Granville, which position he filled
most acceptably for six years.
" In 1881 he was elected president of the Granville Female
College, filling that position for twelve years. In addition
to the discharge of his official duties, he preached a consid-
erable portion of the time, for two years regularly filling
the pulpit of the First Presbyterian Church of Newark, O.
" In 1892 he removed to Edinboro, Pa., and accepted the
pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at that place, where
he remained until disabled by an attack of pneumonia in
1901. His life at Edinboro he regarded as the most useful
and pleasant of his entire ministerial career, it being the
location of the State Normal School of Pennsylvania, and
his audiences being largely composed of intelligent young
men and women, by whom he was greatly respected and
beloved.
" Not recovering from his attack of pneumonia, he in
September, 1901, visited Idaho, hoping there to regain his
health. Disappointed in this, he, a few weeks after, started
back East, reaching Mount Vernon much exhausted and
unable to proceed farther. He remained there until his
death, to which he was perfectly resigned and gratified
that in his last days he could be surrounded by his loving
and beloved friends of former years. In October, 1900, the
University of Wooster conferred upon him the degree of
Ph. D.
''It was a rare privilege," writes a lifelong friend, " to
stand at Dr. Hervey's dying bed, and hear him whisper,
between gasping breaths, words familiar to the ear, but
made newly real to the heart:
' Jesus can make a dying bed
Seem soft as downy pillows are;
While on His breast I rest my head,
And breathe my life out sweetly there.'
336 The Wade Genealogy.
" And so he died, or rather fell asleep, for such it truly
was. As the eyelids gently closed on earth's scenes and
loved ones to whom he had clung so tightly, at the last say-
ing, ' Don't leave me,' one could almost hear, in that silent
chamber, the flutter of an angel's wing, and see the glorious
vision that opened on his sight as he looked ' Good-bye '
and passed within the veil.
"One turns away from such a scene as this, feeling how
poor is language to describe the heavenly state. One can
but say: 'If the vestibule of the King's palace is so radiant
with light, and peace, and hope, and victory, what must it
be to stand " faultless before the throne,'" and "see Him as
He is?" '"
To this modest and well-merited appreciation the com-
piler desires to add his expression of deep regret that this
genial, cultivated friend did not live to see the completion
of the Wade Genealogy. Full of helpful sympathy, Mr.
Hervey's letters always nerved the compiler to his task.
He truly feels that in Mr. Hervey he has lost a sincere
and very dear friend.
1444. Aaron M. Wade (son of Moses), born December 15,
1844; died unmarried.
1445. Eltas E. Wade (son of Moses), born January 25, 1847 ;
died January 15, 1898.
1448. Charles H. Wade (son of Moses), born Julv 1, 1851,
in Herkimer, N. Y. ; removed to Colorado, March,
1873.
Married: — Mary Rochester, at Georgetown, Colo.,
November 1, 1881.
Issue : —
1957. Elsie R. Wade, b. Nov. 9, 1882.
1958. Jean L. Wade, b. Feb. 35, 1885.
1959. Benjamin F. Wade, b. May 15, 1889.
Charles H. Wade removed to Golden, Colo., in 1882, and
in 1900 was a clothier there.
Lieutenant Claude Wade.
(No. 529, ante p. 193.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 337
1449. H Wade (son of James J. ), born at Gains, Orleans
county, Kentucky,
1450. Alfred Wade (son of James J.).
1451. James Wade (son of James J.).
1453. Hamilton Wade (son of Janes J.).
1454. George Wade (son of James J.).
1455. Alfred N. Wade (son of Jonathan), born November
16, 1809. Lived 1838 at Troy, Oakland Co., Mich.
Married: , (daughter of . )
Issue: —
1960. Child living in 1838.
1961. Child living in 1838.
1963. Child living in 1838.
Others who died.
1456. Orrin D. Wade (son of Jonathan), born December 20,
1811. Lived 1838 in Evensburg, Crawford Co., Pa.
Married: — Mahala, daughter of John S. Miller; she
born June 39, 1817; died December 27, 1867.
Issue:— CS^-^o living in 1838.)
1963. Cleveland Wade, b. Nov. 27, 1835; d.
1964. Selkirk Wade, b. Feb. 12, 1838; d. April 2, 1865, at
Petersburg, Va. Soldier of the Union.
1965. A. L. Wade, b. Aug. 22, 1841; d. 1844.
1966. Anilla Wade, b. Feb. 21, 1844; d.
1967. A. P. Wade, b. Feb. 19, 1845; d.
19G8. W. H. Wade, b. 1849; d.
1457. Jonathan C. Wade (son of Jonathan), born March
23, 1814; lived 1838 in Minersville, Meigs Co., O.,
near Cincinnati.
Married: (daughter of ).
[22]
338 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue: —
1969. Nelson Wade, no children.
1970. Dwipht Wade, had children.
1971. Jonathan Wade, Jr. , had children.
1972. Moses Wade, two children. '
1973. Stafford Wade, two children.
1974. Walker Wade, five children.
1975. Oliver Wade, two children.
Issue: — By second wife.
1976. Trnman Wade, two children.
1977. Anna Wade, m. John loumans; left one child.
1458. Moses Wade (son of Jonathan, 1137), born Ma}'
26, 1816.
1450. Walker Wade (son of Jonathan), born September
11, 1818.
1460. Stafford Wade (son of Jonathan, 1137), born No-
vember 20, 1820.
1461. Oliver Wade (son of Jonathan), born January 23,
1823.
1463. Henry Truman Wade (son of Jonathan), born at
Stafford, Genesee County, N. Y., August 11, 1827.
Married: — October 8, 1850, at Arcade, Wyoming-
County, N. Y. , Harriet, daughter of Heman Wil-
son; she born January 3, 1827; died November 14,
1884.
Isstie: — (b. at Arcade, N. Y.)
1978. Nellie A. Wade, b. March 27, 1857; m. Dana E.
Beebe; resided at Arcade, N. Y. ; no issue.
1979. Henry McClellan Wade, b. June 3, 1864; m. Mairi C.
Purdie, September 17, 1891.
Henry Truman Wade served as a private in the Third
Michigan Volunteer Infantry from 1861 to 1863. He then
served as first sergeant in Custer's Brigade until the end of
the war. He retired to Arcade, N. Y., in 1867. Has served
as village trustee, member of the board of education,
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 339
village clerk from 1873-79. From 1876-9 he edited The
Arcade Leader. He resides at Arcade 1902, and is a farmer
and wliolesale cheese merchant.
1465. Edward Davis Wade (son of Moses), born about
1822, at Farmersville, N. Y,; died at North Ogden,
Utah, January 2. 1880.
Married:— hX. Salt Lake City, ]840, Belinda Hicke
*looper; died November 11, 1894.
Issue: — (19 children by plural marriages.) vY*^^ ^
1980. James Monroe Wade. ^ ^*
1980a. Edward W. Wade (Bishop of the Mormons.) ^ ^
1980b. Daniel Davis Wade.
1980c. Henry C. Wade. ftj.
1980d. Mary E. Wade, m Baronett. O
1980e. Minerva L. Wade. H^
This family belongs to the Church of the Latter Day
Saints or Mormons.
1467. Minerva Wade (daughter of Moses), born Septem-
ber 2, 1830.
Married: — William Adams Hickman, May, 1844; he
born in Warren County, Kentucky, April 16, 1815;
died August. 1880.
Jssue: —
1981. William Hickman, b. Feb. 14, 1850, d. May 20, 1854.
1981a. Sarah Maria Hickman, b. Sept. 15, 1851.
1981b. Edward Wade Hickman, b. Aug. 8, 1853.
1981c. Margaret R. Hickman, b. March 13, 1858.
1981d. Vive H. Hickman, b. May 20, 18(50.
1981e. Warren Wade Hickman, b. Aug. 30. 1863.
1981f. Mary Ella Hickman, b. Sept. 28, 1865.
This family belong to the Church of the Latter Day
Saints or Mormons.
1468. Joel H. Wade (son of Henry), born Septeniber 30,
1827.
Married : — Sarah Baillet at Limestone.
340 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue :■
1982. Child, d. young.
1983. Mary Wade, m. Barr of Colorado Springs, Colo ;
had one child; living at Eureka Springs, Ark., in
1883.
1470. Mary Jane Wade (daughter of Henry), born Decem-
ber 17, 1832.
Married: — James Nichols at Farmersville, Mich.,
March 1, 1852.
Issue : —
1984. James Nichols, b. Aug. 25, 1856; d. Sept. 19, 1857.
1985. Jennie M. Nichols, b. Jan. 19, 1858.
198(5. H. James Nichols, b. Sept. 16, 1859; graduate in med-
icine, University of Buffalo, and studied medicine
in Pennsylvania University in 1882.
1987. John B. Nichols, b. Jan. 1, 1861; lived 1882 in Canis-
teo, clerk.
1471. Henry Wade (son of Henry), born Feb. 1, 1836,
at Farmersville. N. Y. ; living 18 82 at Franklinville
N. Y., and was farming.
Married: — Helen E. Baker in 1857, at Farmersville.
Issue : —
1988. Milton Wade, clerk, Kansas City, Mo., in 1883.
1989. John Wade.
1990. Child, d. young.
1474. Anna S. Wade (dang-hter of Henry), born October
11, 1844.
Married : — Milton Westbrook. a dentist, at Limestone,
and lived in 1882 at Kalamazoo, Mich.
Issue : —
1991. Alice Westbrook.
1992. Cora Westbrook.
1998. Carl Westbrook.
1475. Lorain C. Wade (daughter of Henry), born October
10, 1846.
Married : — Stephen H. Smith, Dec. 20, 1866, and liv-
ed in 1882 at Louisville, Ky., where he was interest-
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 341
ed with his father in the Ohio Falls Cooperage
Works.
Issue : —
1994. Mamie Smith, b. Nov. 3, 1873, at Brookville, Pa.
1995. Frank Smith, b. June 35, 1875, at Brookville, Pa.
1996. Child, d. young.
1476. Eveline Wade (daughter of Henry), b. April 20,
1853.
Married: — George Paton, October 8, 1873. at Lime-
stone, and lived there in 1852.
Issue: —
1997. Jennie Wade Paton, b. July 5, 1874.
1998. Bessie Wade Paton, b. June 33, 1877.
1494. David W. Wade (son of Henry), born December 6,
1818.
Married: — I, Catherine V. Pierson December 18, 1844;
she born May 24, 1823; died May 22, 1851.
Married: — 11, Sarah D. Van Houten, June 6, 1852;
she was a widow whose maiden name was Congar,
and was born October 20, 1825.
Issue: —
1999. Phebe R. Wade, b. Oct. 18, 1845; d.
2000. Charles H. Wade, b. May 3, 1848; d. July 37, 1848.
2001. Fred. C. Wade, b. Feb. 2(i, 1856; d.
1496. Mary J. Wade (daughter of Henry).
Married: — Fred L. Dunbar, October 18, 1854.
Issue: — None.
Mary J. Wade died and was buried in her garden by F. L.
Dunbar while he was mentally deranged. It is due to his
memory to state that he aided Mr. Jeptha Homer Wadcj
Jr. for several years in the compilation of this chapter and
with great diligence labored with exceeding exactitude.
1497. Benjamin Ogden Wade (son of Daniel), born at
Elizabeth, N. J., September 22, 1818.
342 The Wade Genealogy.
Married: — Harriet N. Bonnell at Elizabeth, October
12, 1844; she born Chatham, N. J.;died December
16, 1898.
Issue: — None.
Benjamin Ogden Wade resides 1902 at 32 Catharine Street,
Elizabeth, N. J., and is a merchant.
1499. Rachel Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Daniel), born
May 1, 1821; died August 11, 1854.
Married: — John Osborn April 15, 1853.
Issue: —
2002. Elizabeth Osborn, d. infant.
1501. Margaret Emeline Wade (daughter of Daniel), born
April 11, 1825.
Married: — Farrington Price, October 15, 1845.
Issue: —
2003. George Price, d. age 21.
2004. Hannah Ogden Price, b. about 1856; resides at Eliza-
beth, N. J.
1508. Emma Jane Wade (daughter of Phineas M.). born
August 22, 1834.
Married: — William Edwin Mooney July 4, 1852; he
born June 30, 1823.
Issue: —
• 2005. Elizabeth Watkins Mooney, b. Sept. 10, 1853.
2006. John Caldwell Mooney, b. Aug. 11, 1856.
2007. Mary Catherine Mooney, b. Oct. 6, 1859.
2008. Samuel Norris Mooney, b. Feb. 1, 1863.
2009. Martha Parcell Mooney, b. Nov. 23, 1865.
2010. Grace Eugenie Mooney, b. Aug. 11, 1869,
2011. William Robert Mooney, b. Sept. 1, 1873.
2012. Walter Wade Mooney, b. Aug. 27, 1877.
1509. William Silas Wade (son of Phineas M.), born
March 20, 1844.
Married: — Sarah Josephine Adamson, March 25,
1870; she born December 30, 1840.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 343
Issue :-
2013. Inez Eusebia Wade, b. March 27; d. Nov. 29, 1871.
2014. Joseph Adamson Wade, b. March 25, 1875.
2015. Leon Wilson Wade, b. Feb. 26, 1882.
1511. Abigail Mulford Harrison (daughter of Rachel
(Wade) Karrison); born February 19, 1808.
Married: — August 21, 1882, Ogden Magie; he born
June 23, 1808; died January 26, 1871.
Issue : —
2016. Julia Magie, m. F. Terhune.
2017. Mary Magie, m. Ogden; no issue.
1512. Enos Hampton Harrison (son of Rachel Wade Har-
risou), born at Elizabeth, N. J., February 8, 1810;
died at Keokuk, la., December 10, 1877.
Married :— I, Laura B. Porter of Alton, 111., June 30,
1837; she died June 28, 1838.
Jssue :—
2018. Laura Porter Harrison.
Married : — H, Mary E. Cubbeiiy (Lewis) of St. Louis,
June 17, 1844; she twice married; no issue first
marriage.
Issue : —
2019. William E. Harrison, b. Nov. 22, 1846, at Kodney,
Miss.
2020. Louis R. Harrison, b. 1856, at Keokuk, ia.
2021. Julia M. Harrison, b. 1865, at Keokuk, la.; m. J. L.
Eoot, Keokuk, la.
Enos.H. Harrison was a merchant and banker. He was
largely instrumental in founding the state banking system
of Iowa and was a prominent business man in the early his-
tory of Keokuk, Iowa.
1529. Joseph Wade (son of Obadiah), known as "Little
Joe." Lived in New York City.
Married: — Ann Ruton.
Issue : —
2022. Daughter, m. Lipp, who died.
344 The Wade Genealogy.
1530. Charity Wade (daughter of Obadiah).
Married : — Jacob DeGroat (son of Joseph).
Issue : —
2023. Joseph DeGroat.
1533. Abner Wade (son of Obadiah).
Married : — Margaret J. Youatt.
Issue : —
2024. Abraham Obadiah Wade, d. age 6, at Caldwell, N. J.
2035. A son. d. in infancy, at Caldwell, N. J.
2026. Abraham Youatt, b. Dec. 1, 1844.
1535. Joseph S. Wade (son of Nathaniel), born December
5. 1797; died January 19, 1848.
Married: — I, Lucinda Condit, April 13, 1823; she
born March 5, 1799; died July 29, 1836.
Issue : —
2027. Charles C. Wade, b. Feb. 18, 1824; m. ■ Winans.
2028. Abigail Ann Wade. b. Aug. 20, 1825; d. April 27. 1856.
--«==aa29. William Oscar Wade, b. Aug. 20, 1828; d. May 5, 1879.
2030. Elizabeth Wade, b. Feb. 22, 1880.
2031. Emeline Wade, b. July 21, 1832.
2032. Leander Wade, b. June 29, 1834 ; d. Feb. 22, 1837.
2033. Mary Lucinda Wade, b. April 6, 1886; d. Jan. 12,
1864.
2034. Margaret M. Wade (twin to 2038), b. April 6, 1836.
Married: — II, (daughter of ).
Issue : —
2035. Leander Wade, b. Nov. 1, 1840; living 1883.
2036. Joseph S. Wade, b. Feb. 18, 1845.
2037. Smith Wade.
2038. Nathaniel Wade.
1356. Samuel Wade (son of Nathaniel), born March 3,
1805; died March 5, 1847.
Married: — Mary Brooks.
Issue: —
2039. Samuel Wade, moved west.
2040. Oliver Wade, moved west.
2041. James Wade.
2042. Jane Wade.
2043. Delia Wade.
2044. George Wade.
Colonel Sir Claude Maktine Wade.
(No. 518. ante p. 187.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 345
1537. John D. Wade (son of Nathaniel), born April 9,
1810.
Issue: —
2045. John T. Wade.
^.„!iC2046. William Wade.
2047. Walter C. Wade.
2048. Mary 0. Wade.
2049. Emma Wade.
2050. Ida Wade.
1538. Calvin Wade (son of Nathaniel), born July 23, 1812.
Married: — I, Penelope King Wright.
Issue : —
2051. Dauorhter.
2052. Daughter.
2053. Daughter.
2054. Daughter.
2055. Daughter.
2056. Daughter.
Married: — II, — — .
Issue : —
2057. Son.
2058. Celia Malissa Wade, b. April 28, 1852; m. Edward
Winfield Wade of Long Island, N. Y.
1539. Jemima Wade (daughter of Nathaniel), born May
2, 1808.
Married: — I, Joseph Delacroix.
Issue: —
2059. Elizabeth Delacroix, b. March 6, 1826; m. John
McCarl, Oct. 4, 1846; d. Newark, N. J., Nov. 27,
1862.
2060. Alexander Delacroix, b. June 15, 1828; m. Emily-
Sophia Post. Sept., 1855.
2061. John Delacroix.
2062. Mary Ann Delacroix, b. Aug. 25, 1833; m. Isaac An-
derson Meeker, March 27, 1852.
2063. Theodore Delacroix, b. Jan. 17, 1835; m. Mary
Catherine Weed, May 28, 1857.
2064. Joanna Williams Delacroix.
Married: — II, Matthias Swain, Jr. ; he born Septem-
ber 16, 1804; died June 21, 1877.
346 The Wade Genealogy.
Issue : —
2065. Moees G. Swain, b. Dec. 3, 1842, at Chatham, N. J. ;
m. Sarah L. Jacobs, Feb. 27; 1865.
2066. Susan E. Swain, b. Sept. 12, 1845; m. Isaac N. F.
Walton, July 2, 18P8,
2067. George H. Swain, b. Feb. 14, 1847; d. Aug. 16, 1865,
at Durant, Iowa.
2067a. Charles F. Swain, b. Feb. 3,;i849; m. Elizabeth Ann
Goodman, Marengo, Iowa, Aug. 3, 1874.
1540. Phkbe Wade (daughter of Nathaniel), born July 4,
1800; died December 17, 1845.
Married: — Josiah Williams; he bom July 7, 1799.
Issue: —
2068. Bethuel Williams, b. Aril 1, 1834; d. unm.
2069. Charles F. Williams, b. Nov. 9, 1825; dead.
2070. Amanda Williams, b. Oct. 1, 1827; m. Walter H.
Bishop.
2071. Jane E. Williams. b. March 16, 1829; dead; m. Charles
Merchant.
2072. Mary Williams, b. Jan. 21,1831; m. Amos Smith,
April 19, 1845.
2073. Zenas V. Williams, b. Aug. 17, 1832; m. Emma War-
dell, Dec. 10, 1861.
2074. Earriet M. Williams, b. April 6, 1834; d. June 5, 1856;
m. Daniel S. Oouklin, Feb. 7, 1855.
2075. Phebe Ann Williams, b. April 12. 1836; m.(l) Abraham
Conklin, Dec. 2, 1854; m. (2) John V. Wade, Oct.
17, 1869.
2076. Sarah Williams, b. April 8, 1839; m. Nelson McClen-
non, March 15, 1862.
2077. Jerad V. Williams, b. April 29, 1842; m. Laura Ward,
March, 1867.
2078. Abby L. Williams, b. Nov. 2, 1843; m. John Fazer,
Oct. 5, 1856.
1541. Abby Wade (daughter of Nathaniel), born March
21, 1803; died October 18, 1849.
Married :—]ohn R. Squier; he died July 11, 1880,
age 77 years, 6 months.
Issue : —
2079. A boy, d. in infancy.
2080. George W. Squier, b. July 30, 1825; m. Huldah Day,
July 4, 1849.
2081. Mary Squier, m. William Arnold.
2082. Eliza Squier, m. William Totter.
2083. Emetine Squier, m. Henry Pickering.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 347
1545. Uriah Smith Wade (son of Nathaniel), born De-
cember 9, 1806.
Married: — Phebe Mirick, January 28, 1829; she born
February 17, 1812.
Issue: —
2084. Susan C. Wade, b. Dec. 31, 1831, at Orange, N. J.; d.
Nov. 15, 1854.
2085. George H. Wade, b. May 1, 1833, at Orange, N. J.
2086. Harriet L. Wade, b. Jan. 30, 1835, at Orange, N. J.
d. June 11. 1857.
2087. Mary E. Wade. b. March 4, 1837, at Orange, N. J.
d. Feb. 1, 1873.
2088. Charles A. Wade, b. March 21, 1839, at Orange, N.J.
d. Sept. 22, 1841.
2089. Charles L. Wade, b. May 14, 1842, at Orange, N. J.
d. Jan. 2, 1879.
2090. Lucy A. Wade, b. July 29, 1844, at Rome, O.
2091. JohnM. Wade, b. Sept. 9. 1848, atSunbury, O.
2092. Phebe E. Wade, b. at Sunbury, O.
2093. James C. Wade, b. Dec. 16, 1854, at Elwood, Iowa.
1548. Rachel Wadk (daughter of Nathaniel), born March
31, 1818.
Married :—VeX.er K. Greene, October 19, 1838.
Issue : —
2094. Harriet Ann Woolley Greene, b. March 2, 1840; m.
Charles K. Morehouse, Dec. 25, 1866.
2095. Charles H. Greene, b. Sept 11, 1842; d. Nov. 6. 1873;
m. (1) Elizabeth M. Stevens, Nov. 14, 1866; m. (2)
Matilda Hathaway.
2096. George Atwood Greene, b. July 15, 1843; living,
1883.
2097. James Anson Greene, b. April 8, 1846 ; d. March 24,
1848
2098. Mary Lavinia Greer-e, b. Feb. 22, 1848; m. Nov. 18,
1869, Fred. Kipp.
2099. Anna Augusta Greene, b. Julv 17. 1852; m. Rev.
Charles W. Hutchings, April 28, 1875.
2100. James Anson Greene, b. Feb..23, 1854; d. Sept. 21.
1854.
2101. James Lewis Greene, b. Jan. 20. 1856; d. Sept. 8,
1856.
1554. Demas H. Wade (son of Demas H.), born 1820-1.
1555. Jabez PiKRSON Wade (son of Nathaniel Jr.). born
September 22, 1802; died April 19, 1849; he held
348 The Wade Genealogy.
the office of Sheriff of Orange County at one time,
and died at Montgomery, N. Y.
Married: — Susan, daughter of Nicholas Milspaugh
of Orange, N. J., February 19, 1829; she born
August 26, 1803; died April 10, 1871.
Issue : —
2102. Daniel Nicholas Milspaugh Wade, b. Dec. 16, 1832;
d. Jan. 5, 1899. <^7 y-^-
2103. Jane Wade, b. Dec. 11, 1829. 'i 'f^ ' I'fy^-
2104. Nathaniel Wade, b. July 9, 1833; d. in infancy.
2105. Nathaniel Jabez Wade, b. June 1, 1834; d. Aug. 19,
1853. /f/*^-
2106. Joseph Gridley Wade, b. Sept. 25, 1836; d. Feb. 2,
1862. >.6yw.
2107. Elizabeth Wa'de. b. Jan. 18, 1839; d. April 18, 1874. J/^^
2108. Adam Newkirk Wade, b. July 1, 1841. '^'
2109. Andrew Kinsman Wade, b. Aug. 10, 1845.
1556. Julia Ann Wade (danghter of Nathaniel Jr.), born
October 5, 1806.
Married : — Abijah Sherman Meeker, son of Jeptha,
October 28, 1824; he born 1802; died July 21, 1854,
at Newark.
Issue: — (All born in Northfield, N. J.)
2110. Jabez Nathaniel Meeker, b. May 18, 1827; d. June 20,
1853. unm.
2111. Sarah Jane Wade Meeker, b. Aug. 25, 1831; d. Dec.
8, 1832.
2112. Silas Bentley Meeker, b. July 14, 1836; m. (1) Ehza
B. Squier, Jan. 8, 1859; d. Oct. 11, 1868; had 4 child-
ren, 3 living, 1883 ; m. (2) Emma J. Squier, 1873;
had 2 children, living, 1883.
2113. Sarah Jane Meeker, b. Sept. 30, 1833; m. Eev. Milan
L. Ward, Jan. 8, 1859, Pres. Ottawa University,
xCfljUSfliS
2114. George Halsey Meeker, b. Aug. 27, 1842; d. Sept. 17,
1856.
1558. Maria Wade (daughter of Joseph), died 1875, of
cancer.
Married : — William (or James) Agar.
Issue: ?
Andrew Kinsman Wade.
(New Jerse3^ family. No. 2109, p. 348.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 349
1559. Robert McChesney Wade (son of Joseph), born
July 23, 1813; died February 7, 1884.
Married : — October 22, 1840, Juliette Reeves, daugh-
ter of Isaac and Rebecca; she born November 3,
1824.
Issue: —
—-— 2JU4a. Moses A. Wade, b. Nov. 24, 184J.
21 Hb Albert Wade.
2114c. BeDJamin Wade, carpenter, living in Newark, unm.,
1881.
2114d. Oliver Wade.
~-2114e. William Wade; unm.
21141'. Fanny Wade; lived witb her brother in Newark, N.J.
2114g. DeHa Wade; lived at Short Hills, N. J.
1561. Nelson Wade (son of Joseph), born
Married: Whitehead.
Issue : —
2115. Valentine Wade, b. d.
2116. Lambert Wade, b. d. . Is an elder.
1568. William Brookfield Wade (son of Wells).
1569. Henry Wade (son of Wells), born at Newark, N.
J., 1808; died at Panama, la., April 24, 1883.
Married: Norton; died at Panama, la., Sep-
tember 2, 1882, aged 75.
Issue : —
2117. Charles Henry Wade, b. Aug. 3, 1844, in Cayuga
County, Canada.
1570. Jacob Wade (son of Wells).
1581. Jacob S. Wade (son of Daniel Pierson); served in
the Union Army and resided in New York City.
1582. George H. Wade (son of Daniel Pierson).
Married : —
Issue: — ?
350 The Wade Genealogy.
1586. John Benjamin Wade (son of Uzal Harrison).
1587. James Harrison Wade (son of Uzal Harrison).
1588. Richard Wade (son of Uzal Harrison).
1589. Joseph Bradley Wade (son of Uzal Harrison).
1591. Charles Henry Wade (son of Uzal Harrison).
1595. Martha Wade (daughter of Jeptha), born January
■ 19, 1791; died February 20, 1850.
Married : — James Fleming, at Romulus, N. Y., Feb-
ruary 15, 1808, by Rev. Charles Mosher. lie was
born in Lycoming County, Pa., January 28, 1787;
died July 14, 1874.
Issue: — (First six born in Romulus, next three in Ridsrewav,
N. Y.) ^ •^'
2118. Jeptha Wade Fleming, b. Nov. 13, 1808; d. July 22,
186VI, in Michigan; m. Lucy Eldridge, Feb. 17,
1842; 1 child living, 1881.
2119. Jessie Fleming, b. March 14, 1811; d. ; m.
Susan McConnell July 16, ISciS; hving 1881 at
Adrian.
2120. Jane Fleming, b. June 12. 1812; d. July 26. 1843. at
La Porte; m. Wm. K. Parker Oct. 9, 1835; had 2
children.
2121. Josiah J. Fleming, b. Aug. 6, 1814; d. May 26, 1865,
at Marengo, Mich. ; m. Clarissa Horner, Nov. 6,
1634, of Wayne County, Mich.; 3 children, 1 living
1881.
2122. John Fleming, b. Ocb. 6, 1816; d. July 21, 1856, at
Eome, Mich.; m. Nancy Stuart, Dec. 19, 1837; 5-
children; 4 living, 1881.
2123. Charles Fleming, b. Oct. 30, 1818; living at Ypsi-
lanti, 1881; m. Jane Stuart, Jan. 16, 1840; 2 chil-
dren; both living, 1881.
2124. Miranda Fleming, b. Feb. 28, 1821 ; d. Aug. 9, 1822,
at Ridgeway, N. Y.
2125. Lettice S. Fleming, b. Jan. 11, 1823; m. Selleck W.
Chase, July 1, 1840; issue, 11 children; he died
Aug. 14, 1871.
2126. Martha Fleming, b. Feb. 17, 1825, at Ridgeway, N.
Y.; d. Nov. 21, 1871, at Tecumseh; m. Wilson
Matthews, Nov. 18, 1845; he was a farmer from
Tecumseh, Mich.; 2 children living," 1881.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 351
2137. Sarah Eliza Fleming, b. July 11, 1828, at Ypsilanti;
m. Theo. A. McConnell, Oct. 26, 1848; had 1 child;
he d. June 7, 1874.
3138. William Allen Fleming, b. Feb. 21, 1832. at Ypsi-
lanti; m. Angeline Stevens, May 4, 1854.
1596. Elizabeth Wade (daughter of Jeptha), born April
29, 1793; died February 13, 1853.
Married: — Thomas Hunter at Romulus, N. Y., April
28, 1814; he born at Annapolis, Md., Oct. 10,
1790; died June 29. 1865; he and family moved to
Michigan in June, 1835.
Issue: —
2139. Sarah Electa Hunter, b. March 16, 1815, at Seneca
Falls, N. Y.; m. Noah S. Burroughs, Jan. 3, 1834,
at Seneca Falls; 6 children.
3130. Nancy Jane Hunter, b. Dec. 4, 1817, at Seneca
Falls; d. Jan. 17, 1839. at Franklin, Mich.
3131. Miranda B. Hunter, b. July 26, 1822, at Seneca
Falls; m. Jacob Wilson Cairns of Lenawee County,
April 9 1844, at Frankhn, Mich.; 2 children; 1 liv-
ing, 1881.
3132. David E. Hunter, b. Feb. 3. 1825, at Seneca Falls.
2183. Emily Frances Hunter, b. June 28, 1832, at Seneca
Falls; m. Seymour H. Love of Lenawee County,
Dec. 31, 1851, in Franklin, Mich.; she d. June 30,
187;i; 7 children; all living, 1881.
2134. Martha Angeline Hunter, b. July 19, 1835, in Frank-
lin; m. John Van Valkenburgh, in Franklin, Aug.
31, 1854.
2135. Rachel Hunter, b. Sept. 27, 1816. d. Oct. 14, 1816.
2136. Andrew James Hunter, b. March 31, 1820; living at
Cherokee, la., 1881; m. Abel H. Wimple of Lena-
wee County, Mich. , June 19, 1841; 4 children; all
living, 1881.
2137. Henry John Hunter, b. Feb. 19, 1837; d. same day.
2138. Jeptha Wade Hunter, b. March 12, 1829; died same
day.
1597. Phebe Wade (daughter of Jeptha), born March 6,
1795.
Married : — Samuel Fleming, February, 1816, in Rom-
ulus, N. Y.
Jssue: — (All born in Eomulus, N. Y.)
2139. Mary Fleming, b. Nov. 19, 1816; d. in Adrian, Sept.
4, 1856.
352 The Wade Genealogy.
2140. Martha Fleming, b. Jan. 28, 1819; d. in Eollin, Mich.,
Feb. 9, 1881 ; m. William H. Clark, June 16, 1862,
in Adrian, Mich.
2141. Clarissa Fleming, b. Sept. 18, 1821; d. Nov. 19, 18—,
in Concordia, Mich.; m. Jesse Gardner, Feb. 19,
1845.
2142. Sarah W. Fleming, b. Jan. 4, 1824; d. July 27, 1854,
in Adrian; m. Thomas Older, May 21, 1845.
2143. Franklin Fleming, b. May 29, 1826; d. June 8, 1873,
in California; m. Lois Stoddard (Stodard), March
13, 1866, in California.
2144. Jessie Fleming, b. March 3. 1839; m. Mary H. More,
June 25, 1857, at Mason, Mich.
2145. Jeptha Fleming, b. July 27, 1831; m. Nancy Burt,
Dec. 24, 1857; she died at Woodstock, March 31,
1881.
2146. Louisa Fleming, b. June 12, 1834; m. Lennan S.
Stevens, J 853, in Adrian, Mich.
1598. Silas Wade (son of jeptha), born September 4, 1797;
died February 19, 1869.
Married: — I, Sally Beers, December 30, 1818; she
born June 11, 1800; died January 10, 1850.
Issue: — (All born in Orleans Co., N. Y.)
2147. Nancy Wade, b. Oct. 14, 1819.
2148. Harriet Wade, b. Feb. 25, 1822; d. Jan. 2, 1879.
2149. Sophronia Wade, b. Jan. 8, 1825.
2150. Serring Newell Wade, lb. June 8, 1827.
2151. Jeptha Wade, b. Jan. 28, 1880; d. Jan. 31, 1830.
2152. Charles Henry Wade, b. May 6, 1833; d. Aug. 5, 1865,
in Ky.
2153. Martha Elizabeth Wade, b. Feb. 21, 1836.
2154. Daniel Webster Wade, b. Nov. 28, 1838, at Rome,
Mich.
Married: — II, Betsy Barker, February 26, 1851; she
born June 18, 1805; died February 14, 1871.
Issue : —
None.
1599. Keziah Wade (daughter of Jeptha), born August
16, 1800, at Morristown, N. J. ; died February 15,
1872.
Married: — Charles W. Beers, January 7, 1818; he
born August 6, 1797; died June 5, 1874.
Daniel N. M. Wade.
(New Jersey family.)
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 353
Issue: —
2155. Margaret S. Beers, b. Oct. 26, 1818; d. June 16, 1842;
m. David M. Haight, Sept. 26, 1889.
2156. Jeptha W. Todd Beers, b. Dec. 1, 1820; d. July 24,
1863; m. Lucv A. Bradley, Jan. 1, 1846.
2157. Andrew J. Beers, b. Feb. 24, 1823; m. Mary J. Hew-
itt, Jan. 21, 1852; had 2 children.
2158. Edward W. Beers, b. May 4, 1827; m. Hannah Hood,
March 27, 1856.
2159. Henry Beers, b. Jan. 14, 1829; d. June 21, 1829.
2160. Stephen Beers, b. July 12, 1831; m. Mary Hood, April
5, 1854.
2161. Mary J. Beers, b. Dec. 13, 1833; m. George H.
Turner, Feb. 15, 1853; living in Woodstock, 1881;
had 3 children.
2162. John H. Beers, b. June 9, 1838; d. Nov. 18, 1873,
2163. Josephine Beers, b. Dec. 21, 1840; d. Oct, 5, 1847.
1600. Andrew Wade (son of Jeptha), born August 29,
1803; died July 8, 1858.
Married: — Susanna Beers, December 20, 1823; she
born in Seneca Co., N. Y., July 24, 1805; died
December 11, 1874.
Jssue: — (All born in Orleans Co., N, Y.)
2164. Jefferson Wade, b. Nov. 22, 1825; d. Dec, 8, 1825.
2165. Henry Harrison Wade. b. March 4, 1828; d. March
33, 1875.
2166. Harriet H. Wade, b. March 1, 1831.
1601. Gilbert Allen Wade (son ot Jeptha), born May 19,
1806; died September 23, 1863.
Married : — Maria Foster; she died August 21, 1880.
Issue: —
2167. James F. Wade, b. Sept. 3, 1830, in Orleans Co.,
N. Y.; d. Aug. 19, 1832, in Wayne Co., Mich.
2168. Jeptha A. Wade, b. July 25, 1833, in Lenawee Co.,
Mich. ; d. Nov. 24, 1855, in Eaton Co., Mich.
2169. Elizabeth L. Wade, b. May 21, 1835, in Lenawee Co.,
Mich.
2170. William A. Wade, b. Sept. 15, 1837, Lenawee Co.; d.
Aug. 14, 1839, in Lenawee Co., Mich.
2171. George H. Wade, b. May 12, 1839, in Lenawee Co.
[23]
354 The Wade Genealogy.
1602. Sally Ann Wade (daughter of Jeptha), born Novem-
ber 2, 1808.
Married: — Ransom Todd, July 1, 1829, in Orleans
Co., N. Y.; he born July 6, 1805, in Wayne Co.,
N. Y.
Jsstie: — (All but eldest born in Lenawee Co., Mich.)
3172. Sarah Lane Todd, b. April 21, 1830, in Washtenaw
Co., Mich.; d. Sept. 7, 1854, in Lenawee Co.; m,
Gideon A. Hendricks, in Ionia Co., Sept. 1, 1853.
2178. Luther Lindaley Todd,b. Jan. 28, 1832; m. (1) Adelphi
Kezia Hodge, July 8, 1856; m. (2) Margaret A.
Snyder, Nov. 4, 1853; 1 child died in Lenawee Co.,
and 2 children living 1881.*
2174. Henry James Todd. b. Dec. 9, 1833; d. Oct. 1, 1862.
2174^. AlviraTodd, b. Nov. 15, 1835.
2175. Cynthia Lee Todd, b. April 10, 1838; m. Allen Beach,
in Lenawee Co., Dec. 13, 1855; had 2 children living
in 1881.
2176. Susan Maria Todd, b. April 18, 1840; m. George
Harvey Todd, Lenawee Co. , June 19, 1861; had
6 children; 5 living in 1881.
2177. Martha Alphena Todd, b. Feb. 9, 1843; m. Samuel T.
Schureman, Lenawee Co., June 18, 1862; had 8
children; 6 living, 1881.
2178. Newell Delano Todd, b. Sept. 16, 1845; m. Huldah
Sheldon Aldrich, Lenawee Co., May 17, 1871;
had 3 childien; 2 living, 1881.
2179. Elmore Llewellyn Todd, b. Feb. 21, 1849; m. Martha
Sergeant, Lenawee Co., Jan. 1, 1870; had 2 child-
ren; both living, 1881.
2180. Eosa Serephene Todd, b. March 6, 1852; m. Thomas
S. Leak, Atchison, Kan., Feb. 14, 1874.
1603. Jeptha Homer Wade (son of Jeptha), born August
11, 1811, at Romulus, N. Y. ; died at Cleveland,
Ohio.
Married: — I, Rebecca Loueza Facer, daughter of
Charles Harry and Rebecca (Watson) Facer, Octo
ber 15, 1832, at Seneca Falls, N. Y. ; she born
September 9, 1812, at Jamaica, L. I. ; died Novem-
ber 30, 1836, at Seneca Falls.
issue: — (Born at Seneca Falls, N. Y.)
2181. Francis Wade, b. Aug. 18, 1833; d. Sept. 4, 1833.
2182. Eandall Palmer Wade, b. Aug. 26, 1835; d. June 24,
1876, at Cleveland, Ohio.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 355
Married: — II, Susan Maranda Fleming, daughter of
John, September 5, 1837, in Romulus, N. Y. ; she
"born March 7, 1814.
Issue: —
None.
The Cleveland newspapers printed these appreciations of
the greatest of the New Jersey Wades, and the compiler
feels that he cannot do better than to reprint them as em-
bodying Mr. Wade's fellow townsmen's tributes to his
sterling worth from those who knew him well : —
"J. H. Wade is dead; the city of Cleveland is in mourn-
ing for a man who for half a century honored the community
by making it his home and the seat of his public-spirited
enterprise. Full of years and honors, he has laid down
the burden of life to receive the reward of work well done.
"Mr. Wade was at his office Tuesday. In the afternoon
he was taken ill with something resembling peritonitis.
He immediately went home and to bed. That night he
suffered a severe chill. The most efficient medical aid was
summoned, and Dr. Biggar, Mr. Wade's family physician,
was telegraphed at New York to return home at once.
"Wednesday morning Mr. Wade was somewhat better,
and by evening he was considered by Dr. Biggar, who had
by that time arrived, to be in a very favorable state.
Wednesday night he was taken with severe stomachic pains
and from that time on grew worse. Thursday afternoon
Mr. J. H. Wade, Jr., telegraphed his family in the east to
come home, and Dr. Biggar expressed himself much disap-
pointed at his patient's failure to rally. Meanwhile Mr.
Wade had been unable to retain anything but stimulants,
and this lack of nourishment constantly weakened his con-
dition until at 9.25 Friday morning he died, his death being
the result of peritonitis. He had not been able to speak
since midnight. His grandson, J. H. Wade, Jr., and his
granddaughter, Mrs. S. T. Everett, were with him. He
was conscious up to within a half hour of the last and when
356 The Wade Genealogy.
the end came it was painless. In his death Cleveland has
lost her best known citizen. No one else here had a repu-
tation so well established and. so national as he.
" Jeptha H. Wade was born August 11, 1811, in Seneca
county, N. Y. , and his early life was spent in Seneca Falls,
Cayuga county. He had a strong love for painting, and
abandoning mechanical pursuits, he pursued art, spending
several years in portrait painting in Michigan and the
Southern states, much of the tune in association with
Randall Palmer, an artist of considerable reputation, for
whom Mr. Wade had a warm affection and after whom he
named his only son. The late 40's found Mr. Wade a resi-
dent of Albion, Mich., when he added to his portrait paint-
ing the then new art of daguerreotyping, and incidentally, as
a result of his naturally investigative disposition, the study
and practice of telegraphy. About 1847 or 1848, he was
residing at Milan, Ohio, manager of the "Speed's Line"
office. His house was burned one day and for his good;
his panels, canvasses, brushes and cameras were destroyed.
It was perhaps the turning point in his life. He had ac-
cumulated but little and he definitely abandoned art,
giving thenceforth his entire attention to the telegraph.
He promoted the building of the first line between Cleve-
land and Cincinnati, and in 1851 and 1852, the line, owing
to a bad insulation, having never been a success, Mr. Wade
secured a preponderance of its stock, reinsulated it, made
it an excellent working line and began working at what he
very early saw was the only way to make telegraphing a
paying business — the general consolidation of the various
conflicting and competing interests. The Western Union
Telegraph Company was the result, and its early history is
the history of Mr. Wade's shrewd and persistent work in
concert with the late Ezra Cornell, John James Speed,
Hiram Sibley and others.
"The work was well done and it rnade Mr. Wade's fortune
with many others. It also very nearly ended his life.
The long strain, the sleepless nights, the days of travel
and anxiety reduced his health to a very low point, and
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Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 357
wlieti the company was fully established, Mr. Wade re-
signed his administrative position and began to rest.
Howbeit rest has never been his natural condition, and his
hand has been in most of the large business interests of
Cleveland at all times since. The Citizens Savings and
Loan Association was his creation, he was a heavy stock-
holder and director in the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company,
and the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Com-
pany and the principal owner of the Cincinnati & Lake
Michigan Railroad. His life has ever been a busy one.
"Mr. Wade was the inventor of the Wade insulator, which
is still in use, and was the first to inclose a submarine
cable in iron armor (across the Mississippi river at St.
Louis).
"On his withdrawal from telegraphic administration in
July, 1867, the board of directors of the Western Union
passed the following resolutions: —
" '■Resolved^ that to the foresight, perseverance and tact of
Mr. J. H. Wade, the former president of the company, we
believe is largely due the fact of the existence of our great
company today, with its thousand arms grasping the ex-
tremities of the continent, instead of a series of weak
unreliable lines, unsuited to public want and as property
precarious and insecure.
'' 'Resolved, that we tender to Mr. Wade our congratula-
tions on the fruition of his great work, signalized and
cemented by this day's election of a board representing the
now united telegraphic interests of the new nation.'
"Mr. Wade was president of the Citizens Savings and Loan
Association, a director in the Second National Bank, after-
wards the National Bank of Commerce, the Cleveland Roll-
ing Mill Company, the Cleveland Iron Company and the
Union Steel Screw Company. He was also atone time and
another president of the American Sheet and Boiler Plate
Company, and of the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company
of Kansas. Until lately he was president of the Valley
Road and a director in three railroad companies, having
been the president of the Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand
Rapids and the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan rail-
358 The Wade Genealogy.
roads. Mr. Wade was at the time of his death the pres-
ident of the board of trustees of the Cleveland Homeopathic
College and one of the trustees of the Cleveland Protestant
Orphan Asylum. Municipally, he has been commissioner
of the city sinking fund, park commissioner and a director
of the Workhouse and House of Refuge. Mr. Wade organ-
ized the Lakeview Cemetery Association and was a member
of the Garfield memorial committee. His first wife, the
mother of his child, Randall P. Wade, died young. His
second, Susan Fleming, lived till but a year or so since.
His grand-children, J. H. Wade, Jr., and Mrs. S. T.
Everett, remain in Cleveland, and there are great-grand-
children old enough to remember him. From time to time
Mr. and Mrs. Wade adopted several daughters. Most of
these are now married.
" Mr. Wade was a peculiarly genial man and no better
friend to one whom he liked could be found. His ' warm
side ' for the boys who served under and with him in the
early telegraph days never grew cool.
"The religious side of Mr. Wade's character turned in
later life toward the investigation of the phenomena of
spiritualism, in which Mr. Wade was a firm believer. He
was distinctly unostentatious in his belief and was no
proselyter. But he took the utmost comfort in his religion
and in the conviction that it took him into close relations
v.^itn his loved son Randall, long years dead. In his church
affiliations he went so far as to have sittings in St. Paul's,
and in the ('hurch of the Unity. The former he took out
of neighborliness, as the church is diagonally across from
his residence. The Church of the Unit)^, perhaps more
nearly than any other church organization, embodied the
advanced habit of modern thought of which he was a
disciple. As a money-maker his success was great. The
fortune which he leaves has been variously estimated at
from $6,000,000 to $10,000,000. His charity and his public
spirit were too well known in Cleveland to require com-
ment at this time. His endowment to the Cleveland
Protestant Orphan Asylum, the beauties and facilities of
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 359
Wade Park, and the magnificent Wade Building on Superior
Street, testify to both. A.nd in a thousand quiet ways his
liberality and his kindly feeling toward his fellow men
found satisfaction in channels which will always be secret.
" In person, Mr. Wade was one who once seen impressed
himself indelibly upon the memory. He was 6 feet and 1
or 2 inches in height, and up to the last time he was seen
upon the street carried himself erect. He seemed the
taller, too, for the tall silk hat he invariably wore.
Although his hair was slightly thinned he would not be
called bald, and he wore in full, but without mustache, a
closely cut, iron gray beard. His gray eyes were keen and
the lines of his face were strongly marked and full of force.
He was imposing, dignified, striking, even handsome if
you will, although his features did not wholly conform to
the lines of beauty.
" Mr. Wade was a democrat, and in his practice as well as
theory he lived his democracy. Intensely American, his
extensive travels abroad from time to time did not merge
with his identity any foreign characteristics nor mar his
own individuality. He was J. H. Wade at all times and
in all places.
" The date of the funeral has not been decided upon as
yet. The family of J. H. Wade, Jr., en route from the East,
are stopped on their journey home by reason of the strike."
" In the death yesterday of Mr. Jeptha H. Wade the city
of Cleveland loses a valuable citizen of national reputation.
A resident of the city for about forty years, he witnessed
the development of its modest hopes to magnificent reali-
ties, and assisted largely in that development. Sharing
in the prosperity coming from the growth of the city and
the extension of its business, he in turn made the city a
sharer in his good fortune. To his taste, his enterprise
and his liberality, Cleveland is indebted for no small por-
tion of its attractive features. He was the principal mover
in the Lakeview Cemetery enterprise, and the unsurpassed
beauty of that garden of the dead is mainly due to the
artistic taste and personal supervision of Mr. Wade. As
360 The Wade Genealogy.
the president and controlling spirit of the Garfield Monu-
ment Association, his name will always be associated with
that national memorial to a president in whose history
Cleveland and its surrounding country have an abiding
interest. Wade Park is a perpetual evidence of his love of
nature, his artistic taste, his great wealth and his un-
bounded liberality. That rich gift to the people of Cleve-
land was the culmination of a series of generous acts in
the same direction. It was conceived in the spirit that
had for years thrown open the handsome private grounds
and gardens of his Euclid Avenue home to all well-behaved
visitors. Mr. Wade had a keen delight in the beautiful in
nature and art, and his enjoyment was greatly enhanced
when shared with others. It was at its height when the
whole people were' free to partake of the pleasure and
showed that they appreciated the privilege.
"In a multitude of other ways Mr. Wade manifested his
generous disposition. His gifts to public charities were
numerous and liberal, though never ostentatiously dis-
played. The streams of his private benefactions were
never ceasing and flowed in every direction. He gave
without grudging and never in an exacting spirit, but he
gave wisely and after satisfying himself that the gift would
not be productive of evil instead of good.
"The ample means which enabled Mr. Wade to gratify
his generous disposition were acquired by readiness to
adapt himself to circumstances and take the greatest possi-
ble advantage of opportunities that others had not yet dis-
covered. Whatever he undertook to do he did with all his
might. His taste for art led him in his younger days to
become a portrait painter, and when he had won reputa-
tion and a fair financial success he chanced upon a descrip-
tion of the then recent invention of Daguerre. His in-
ventive faculty was stimulated by this, and without other
instruction than the printed account he made the first
daguerreotype executed west of New York. The telegraph
had suddenly sprung into existence, and at a glance Mr.
Wade saw its mighty future. Art was abandoned for prac-
I
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tical science. He engaged in the construction of a tele-
graph line across Michigan, the first west of Buffalo, taught
himself telegraphy, opened and equipped an office in Jack-
son and ran it as operator and manager. In a short time
he had organized a company of his own and built the Wade
lines in Ohio and to the Mississippi river, invented the
Wade insulator and the first submarine cable in iron
armor, united the Wade, House, vSpeed, and other com-
peting lines, into the Western Union, and converted a
number of almost bankrupted antagonistic companies into
a prosperous concern, with himself at its head.
"Then came the rapid construction of the Pacific telegraph
line from St. Louis to San Francisco, pointing the route
for the transcontinental to follow and showing how they
could be quickly built, and at last the consolidation of the
lines to the Pacific coast with the Western Union, all under
his own presidency. In 1867 he was the chief ruler, as
well as virtually the creator, of the greatest and most pros-
perous telegraph enterprise in the world, but in the height
of his power and honors the penalty of overwork and enor-
mous responsibility was paid in broken health that com-
pelled his retirement from active connection with the
Western Union Company, though he still retained a direc-
torship. From that time Mr. Wade devoted his time to
his varied interests in Cleveland and to the work of im-
proving and beautifying the city with parks, public
grounds and handsome residence streets."
A USEFUL LIFE ENDED.
"The half-masted flags on the City Hall and the United
States buildings yesterday gave but a faint public expres-
sion to the mournful feeling experienced by thousands of
our citizens on hearing of the sudden death of J. H. Wade.
Last Tuesday he was busy at his desk in his bank, a slight
pain, believed to be merely temporary, being the incident
to cast a cloud over his pathway, or to divert his attention
from the wide field of usefulness in which he had been so
long occupied. Withdrawing to his home on Euclid Ave-
362 The Wade Genealogy.
nue he soon became worse and breathed his last yesterday-
morning".
'•The life of Jeptha H. Wade was a career of restless
and useful activity. He was a journeyman carpenter, a
portrait painter of rare merit, a telegraph operator, a rail-
road man, a banker, and an inventor. He was the master
builder in the construction of the first telegraph line west
of Buffalo, and he set with his own hands the first post
west of Omaha in the line across the continent. At the
head of a small party of men he strung wires all over Ohio,
and several other Western States, called the ''Wade lines."
Later he succeeded in uniting all the struggling, half bank-
rupt little companies into the Western Union, of which he
was for many years the president and general manager.
Along in the sixties he resigned his position in the West-
ern Union on account of ill health, came to Cleveland, and
went into banking, and nothing could since tempt him to
take any part in the business of the great concern of which
he was one of the most conspicuous organizers. Of Mr. J.
H. Wade it can well be said that the city of his home was
greatly benefited for his having lived in it. Wade Park,
which he donated to the city, and the orphan asylum, located
in the magnificent fire-proof building which was constructed
at his expense, are in themselves lasting monuments to his
public- spirited generosity. He was at the head of the
movement some twenty years ago which resulted in giving
to this city the beautiful Lake View Cemetery, and he was
president of the commission which raised the funds for and
planned and carried to completion the Garfield monument.
He was the founder, and up to the time of his decease he
was at the head of the Citizens Savings and Loan Associa-
tion. When the Valley Railroad was in trouble, caused by
its having been built during a period of inflation and high
prices, Mr. Wade was urged to become its president, and
to put the road upon its feet. He persistently declined
until it was pointed out to him that the road was a Cleve-
land enterprise and its prosperity must greatly affect the
growth of this city, and then he yielded.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 363
"It was not the first time that he had sacrificed his per-
sonal inclinations, his repose and peace of mind, for the
welfare of this city.
"Mr. Wade was a man of the most liberal and g-enerous
nature, always ready to contribute to any good cause. At
his bank he was often petitioned for aid several times a
day, and no needy applicant ever went away empty-handed.
After he had heard the case, if it impressed him favora-
bly, he would ask: 'How much do you need to make up
the desired sum?' His next words generally were: 'Well,
you needn't go any further,' and out came the amount re-
quired. He could well afford to be liberal. During his
long and busy life he had amassed an immense fortune,
variously estimated at from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. He
was president of or a director in a large number of great
business concerns, and to each he gave the benefit of his
mature and well-trained judgment. He was always affa-
ble and agreeable and extended to all who called upon him
the same polite greeting. He preferred the quiet of pri-
vate life to any public honor, and his energy and thought
were, therefore, all devoted to works of which the general
public knew but very little. His real worth, his kindly
good nature, his broad liberality in all things, the thought-
ful attention which he gave to every subject presented to
his consideration, are best known only to the compara-
tively few who came in frequent contact with him. By
them his loss will be sadly mourned. But all Cleveland
cannot fail to see in his decease the loss of a public bene-
factor who will be long missed and most sincerely
mourned."
"The announcement of the death of J. H. Wade Satur-
day morning creaied a profound impression throughout
the city. He was not only one of the oldest, wealthiest and
most highly esteemed of the citizens of Cleveland, but his
energy and untiring activity, whether in business enter-
prises or works of benevolence, had made his face and
figure familiar even to the children in the streets. No man
in the city will be more generally missed or more sincerely
364 The Wade Genealogy.
mourned. He was, perhaps, Cleveland's best known citizen
outside the municipal boundaries. His death was as un-
expected as it was sad. He was at his office last Tuesday,
and had but recently returned from a trip up the lakes that
seemed to have refreshed him exceedingly. As the day
wore on he began to feel ill. The fact that it was the anni-
versary of his wife's death in New York last year added
depression of mind to bodily suffering, and at three o'clock
Mr. Wade rose, closed his desk for the last time, and was
driven to his home, No. 996 Euclid Avenue. Dr. Biggar,
his family physician, was out of town, and Dr. Bishop, Dr.
Pomeroy and Dr. Merrick were called to attend the suf-
ferer, while a telegram was sent to Dr. Biggar. On
Wednesday Mr. Wade seemed better, but could retain no
nourishment. That night he was attacked with severe
pains in the stomach, and when Dr. Biggar arrived Thurs-
day morning, he found him a very sick man. J. H. Wade,
Jr., at once sent a telegram to his mother, Mrs. Randall P.
Wade, and his wife, who was in the East with her children,
informing them of his grandfather's condition. Friday
was a day of comparative hopefulness, and J. H. Wade, Jr.,
and Mrs. S. T. Everett, who were at the bedside, were
much encouraged. At 10 o'clock Friday night alarming
symptoms developed, and at midnight all knew that the
end was not far off. The sufferer, however, showed a
wonderful tenacity of life and lingered through without
marks of suffering until after 9 o'clock. Gathered at the
bedside were his grandchildren, Mr. J. H. Wade, Jr., and
Mrs. S. T. Everett, Mr. S. T. Everett, Mrs. Giddings, Mrs.
Bidwell, Dr. Biggar, Dr. Bishop, Colonel William Edwards,
and Colonel Garretson. At 9:25 o'clock Saturday evening,
Mr. Wade passed away, peacefully and resignedly, con-
scious almost to the end.
" Jeptha H. Wade was born in Seneca county. New York,
August 11, 1811, so that had he lived until Monday, he
would have completed his seventy-ninth year. His father,
Jeptha Wade, was a surgeon and civil engineer, and withal
a man sturdy of arm and strong in character. He died
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 365
young, but left his son the heritage of rare mechanical
talent, sound health, an acute mind, and a resolute purpose.
Thus equipped, Mr. Wade started in life determined to win
his way. He learned the carpenter^s trade, when to be a
journeyman meant to be able to finish a house from garret
to cellar. But this did not furnish sufficient scope for his
ingenuity. He made and repaired clocks, mended pumps,
invented new machinery to take the place of old, and even
constructed musical instruments and played upon them in
church and in bands with success. In those days of forced
military training he became the captain of a company of
400 Seneca County riflemen and acquired such skill as a
marksman, that his right to lead the company was never
disputed. At the annual trials of marksmanship it is said
that he was never beaten. When Mr. Wade attained his
majority he proved his right to citizenship by being the
owner of a sash and blind factory. At the age of twenty-
four he changed from an artisan to an artist, and under
the instruction of the portrait artist, Randall Palmer, ac-
quired no little skill in transferring faces to canvas. He
followed this calling for six years in the States of New
York, Michigan and Louisiana, and then became attracted
by the discoveries of Daguerre. He sent for a camera,
which was forwarded to him at Adrian, Mich., and there,
aided only by printed instructions, Mr. Wade took the first
daguerreotype ever made west of New York. The confine-
ment of his artist work had impaired his health and he was
just looking around for some other calling, when the tele-
graph attracted his attention. Words had been sent through
the air from Baltimore to Washington ! This marked the
turning point in Mr. Wade's career. He was then in New
Orleans, but came at once to Detroit, where he devoted
himself to the study of the new science. He then placed
himself at the head of a corps of laborers and pushed into
the woods of Michigan, constructing along the line of the
Michigan Central the first telegraph line west of Buffalo.
He opened, equipped, and, self-taught, conducted both as
manager and operator, the ofBce at Jackson.
366 The Wade Genealogy.
"He soon entered the field as proprietor and began build-
ing lines on his own account. He covered Ohio and Illinois,
and 'Wade's lines' were known as far west as St. Louis.
At this time the manager of a telegraph line was expected
to make insulators, wires, and all other appliances required
for the equipment of the line. The greatest obstacle was
imperfect insulation, and here Mr. Wade stepped in and
invented the famous 'Wade insulator,' which is still in
use. It was imperfect insulation that made the first tele-
graph line between Cleveland and Cincinnati a failure, and
Mr. Wade purchased the stock and set the business on an
efficient and paying basis. In extending his lines to St.
Louis he was first to demonstrate the practicability of enclos-
ing a submarine cable in an iron armor and made the world
his debtor by showing that the trans-oceanic telegraph was
a possibility. Mr. Wade originated the 'trust' idea,
though he could not foresee to what lengths the sugges-
tion would be carried. In 1852 Wade, O'Reilly, Speed and
Cornell were having what Mr. Wade termed 'A Kilkenney
Cat Fight.'
"No one was making any money. The telegraph stock was
so low that whole blocks were given Mr. Wade on the guar-
antee that the stockholders would not be called upon for
any further assessments. .Much more was bought at 5 and
10 cents on a dollar.
"In 1854 Mr. Wade united his lines]with those controlled
by the House Telegraph Printing Company of Rochester,
and then Mr. Wade, as general manager, controlled all the
lines from Buffalo, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Milwaukee, and intermediate points. The later
outcome of this combination was the Western Union Tele-
graph Compan}^ Mr. Wade next turned his face toward
the 'Great American Desert,' which was then said to lie
between the Mississippi and the Pacific States. He became
the originator and first president of the Pacific Telegraph
Company. The construction, with all its difficulties, was
effected under his direction. He blazed out the way which
his telegraph line afterwards assisted the Pacific Railway
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 367
to follow. When the Pacific Company was combined with
the Western Union he became the first president of the
combination and served them until 1867, when he retired
on account of ill health. The Western Union adopted the
following resolutions :
" 'Resolved^ that to the foresight, perseverance, and tact of
Mr. J, H. Wade, the former president of the company, we
believe is largely due the fact of the existence of our great
company today, with its thousand arms grasping the ex-
tremities of the continent i istead of a series of weak, unre-
liable lines unsuited to public want, and as property preca-
rious and insecure.
" 'Resolved^ that we tender to Mr. Wade our congratula-
tions on the fruition of his great work, signalized and
cemented by this day's election of a board representing the
now united leading telegraphic interests of the nation.'
"With his retirement from the telegraph business, Mr.
Wade begins the career of banker, capitalist and philan-
thropist with '«i^hich most Cleveland people are familiar.
Few realize that Mr. Wade, whom they met so often, had
achieved a national reputation as an electrician, v/hile
Edison was in pinafores. In 1867 Mr. Wade organized and
became president of the Citizens Savings and Loan Asso-
ciation, an office which he held until his death. He organ-
ized the Lakeview Cemetery Association, and in 1871
opened the grounds. Wade Park, which he laid out and
beautified, he gave to the city, an imperishable monument
to his liberality and public spirit. The Protestant Cleve-
land Orphan Asylum on St. Clair Street stands as a further
proof of his regard for the welfare of the unfortunate.
Some idea of the diversity of Mr. Wade's interests, and a
hint of how widely his loss will be felt, can be inferred
from the offices that he either held at his death or had re-
signed not long before. At his death he was president of
the Citizen's Savings and Loan Association ; of the Bank
of Commerce; of the Kalamazoo, Allegan & Grand Rapids
Railroad; of the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan; of the
American Steel and Boiler Plate Company; of the Chicago
and Atchison Bridge Company; of the Homeopathic Hos-
368 The Wade Genealogy.
pital College; ex-president of the Valley Railroad, and one
of its directors; director of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern; ot the Cleveland Rolling- Mill Company; of the
Cleveland Iron Mining Company; of the Union Steel Screw-
Company; and of the East Cleveland Street Railroad Com-
pany. He was trustee of the Homeopathic College and of the
Huron Street Hospital, as well as of the Garfield Monument
Association and the Protestant Orphan Asylum. He was a
Park Commissioner and a Commissioner of the Sinking
Fund, and was formerly on the Workhouse board. Earlier
he was associated with other railroads. He served as direc-
tor of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis, of the Atlan-
tic & Great Western, of the Bee Line, of the Cleveland &
Pittsburg, of the Grand Haven and the Saginaw Valley &
St. Louis Line, as well as director of the Columbus, Hock-
ing Valley & Toledo Road.
" Mr. Wade was twice married. His first wife was Miss
Louisa Facer, who died early, leaving two children, a son
and a daughter. The daughter died in infancy, but the
son, the late Randall P. Wade, grew to manhood. A few
years later, 1837, Mr. Wade married Miss Sue M. Fleming,
and she lived to celebrate with him their golden wedding.
The survivors of Mr. Wade's family are Mrs. Randall P.
Wade, his son's widow; his two grand-children, Mr. Homer
J. Wade and Mrs. S. T. Everett; and six grand-children —
two sons and a daughter each, of both the Wade and the
Everett households. Besides, Mr. Wade has two sisters
living, Mrs. Phoebe Fleming of Michigan, in her ninety-
'sixth year, and Mrs. S. A. Todd, aged eighty-six, a resident
of Allegheny City. On her ninety-fifth birthday Mrs.
Fleming wrote a clearly penned letter which began with
this naive sentence, ' Ninety years ago today my mother
told me I was five years old.' Mr, Wade showed the letter
to his friends with much pride and manifest affection for
the venerable writer. Since 1852 Mr. Wade has been a
resident of Cleveland, and made himself a beautiful home
on Euclid Avenue. He was fond of company and innocent
amusements, and always a delightful and entertaining
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 369
companion. He will be more deeply missed by his family
and his intimate friends than by any with whom he was
associated in business. Mr. Wade had sittings at St. Paul's
Episcopal and at Unity Churches, but was not regularly
connected with either communion. He was honorable in
his dealings, upright in his personal character, and distin-
guished for benevolence and charity. Surely, measuring
his creed by deeds, it had much of substantial good in it.
' I remember Mr. Wade,' said a visitor at the rooms of the
Citizens Savings and Loan Association yesterday, 'away
back in 18-i8. He v/as a magnificent specimen of manhood
then — as he has always been. He was over six feet tall and
very powerful. I remember he used never to have the
early railway trains, that ran about twelve miles an hour,
stop for him. An engineer used to say that he would some-
times open the throttle valve when he saw the athletic
young operator try to make the train, but never succeeded
in getting away from him. In those days Mr. Wade was
working a line for $600 a year, the salary also including the
pay of his son Randall, to carry the messages. From that
small beginning Mr. Wade has built up a fortune second to
that of no man in Cleveland. The estate has been largely
distributed, so it is said, but probably some $5,000,000 was
still in his name when he died.
"The funeral will occur on Monday or Tuesday, at 3
o'clock. The uncertainty about the date is caused by the
delay in the arrival of Mrs. R. P. Wade, Mrs. Garretson,
and Mrs. J. H. Wade, Jr., and her three children, who are
somewhere en route from Boston. The interruption of
travel on the New York Central may delay their arrival in
this city.
"The Board of Park Commissioners at their meeting yes-
terday passed the following resolutions: —
" 'Whereas, Mr. Jeptha H. Wade, a member of the Board
of Park Commissioners since its organization, has been
called in the fulness of his years to answer the final sum-
mons of nature, and has this day laid down the burdens
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and the honors of a long and active and useful life, there-
fore be it
" ^Resolved, That we, the Park Commissioners of the City
of Cleveland, do hereby express our deep sense of an irre-
parable loss in the death of our associate member, and bear
testimony to the love and esteem and respect in which we
held him during- the years of his service. Full of the wis-
^dom that springs from a thorough knowledge of human
nature, a keen perception of public and private rights,
-duties and obligations, and many years of experience in
affairs, we ever regarded his counsels and recognized his
judgment as invaluable. As an honored and trusted ser-
vant of the public he conscientiously discharged every
duty and responsibility; as an associate, counselor, and
friend, he won for himself a regard which will ever remain
untarnished in our memories.
" '■Resolved, as a further work of respect, that these reso-
lutions be spread upon the journal of proceedings, that
they be published in the daily papers, and that an en-
grossed copy be transmitted to the family.
A. H. STONE,
President.
H. E. HILL,
Park Commissioner.' "
NEW JERSEY.
*' Jeptba H. Wade was born in Seneca county, New York,
August 11, 1861, the son of a surveyor and civil engineer.
He early gave evidence of great mechanical and inventive
ability, combined with great executive capacity. Before
arriving at the age of twenty-one he was the owner of a
large sash and blind factory. He studied portrait painting
under Randall Thomas, the celebrated artist, and achieved
considerable reputation as an artist, and when about thirty
years of age he became interested in the discovery of
Daguerre. Being then located at Adrian, Mich., he pro-
cured a camera and took the first dagueireotype ever made
west of New York ; but about this time the invention of
telegraphy attracted his attention, and he opened and
equipped the Jackson office, along the Michigan Central
Line, the first road built west of Buffalo.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 371
"Later he entered into the construction of the telegraph
lines in Ohio and other Western States, which were known
as the Wade lines. He made many important telegraphic
inventions and improvements, among which was the
Wade insulator. He was also the first to enclose the sub-
marine cable in iron armor, on a line across the Mississippi
River, at St. Louis. This was a very important invention,
as, through it, the crossing of oceans and great bodies of
water was made practicable. The numerous rival telegraph
companies which had sprung up in the West were engaged
in a ruinous competition when a consolidation was effected
under the Western Union Telegraph Company, with Mr.
Wade as the general manager.
"Largely through Mr. Wade's efforts the construction of
a trans-continental line was commenced under his super-
intendence in the spring of 1861, and through his efficient
management, in October of the same year communication
opened. In California he consolidated the competing lines
and was made the first president of the Pacific Telegraph
Company, which was in turn consolidated with the Western
Union Company, and Mr. Wade was made president of the
entire consolidation, a position which he filled iintil 1867,
when he retired from active business life on account of ill
health. His retirement, however, did not preclude his
engaging in an advisory capacity in many large enter-
prises. He is a leading director in several factories,
banks, railroads and other institutions.
"His great enterprise and interest in the development of
the city of Cleveland has resulted in great benefit to that
city, he having opened and improved many streets and
localities, and originated the Lake View Cemetery Asso-
ciation, with its more than 300 acres of tastefully arranged
grounds. At great expense he beautified an extensive
tract of land adjoining Euclid Avenue, known as Wade
Park, and opened it to the enjoyment of the public. He
also built for the Cleveland Protestant Children's Home a
fine large fire-proof building with accommodations for from
100 to 150 children.
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Mr. Wade's life has been one of great benefit and useful-
ness to his fellow-men, not only in his private and public
charities, but in opening up new avenues of industry, thus
contributing to the wealth and comfort of the community
at large."
" The Citizens Savings and Loan Association was opened
for business Augiist 1st, 1868, with J. H. Wade as presi-
dent, and C. W. Lepper, treasurer. It was incorporated
on the 16th day of May of the same year, under an act of
the Legislature ' To enable associations of persons to raise
funds to be used among their members for building home-
steads, and for other purposes, to become a body cor-
porate.' " [Fro?n Kennedy's History of Cleveland, p. 345.)
"An effort had been made to secure for Cleveland, from
the State Board of Agriculture, the Ohio State Fair of
1870-71, but the request was met by a refusal. This
decision, no doubt, had much to do with Cleveland's deter-
mination to have a permanent fair of her own. The
question was agitated, and at a meeting of citizens it was
determined to form the Northern Ohio Fair Association,
which was duly incorporated on February 26, 1870, by the
following gentlemen: Amasa Stone, J. H. Wade, J. P. Rob-
ison. Worthy S. Streator, S. D. Harris, Azariah Everett,
Amos Townshend, William Bingham, Henry Nottingham,
David A. Dangler, William Collins, Oscar A. Childs, Lester
L. Hickox, Oliver H. Payne, Alton Pope, and Waldo A.
A. Fisher." {Ibid. p. 405.)
" On January 1, 1871, the penal and corrective depart-
ments of the city were divorced from the infirmary, and
established in a large and well-appointed structure of their
own, on Woodland Avenue. The Cleveland Workhouse
and House of Correction was the official title of this new
institution. The building was erected at a cost of two
hundred and fafty thousand dollars. The first board of
directors consisted of Harvey Rice, }. H. Wade, George H.
Burt, S. C. Brooks, and William Edwards.
" The greatest step ever taken by Cleveland in the direc-
tion of a park system came through the munificent action
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 373
of an honored and wealthy citizen. J. H. Wade had pur-
chased a great area of land, to the north of Euclid Avenue,
at the extreme eastern end of the city, and by large ex-
penditures of money had made a beautiful park, in which
the skill of the landscape artist had touched the attractions
of nature but to adorn. In 1882, Mr. Wade donated this
park to the city, on condition that seventy-five thousand
dollars should be expended in improvements. The gift
was accepted, and Wade Park now stands as a perpetual
monument to the foresight and generosity of Jeptha H.
Wade." {Ibid. p. ^\^.)
"When it was learned that President Garfield would be
buried in Lake View Cemetery, a movement was at once
set on foot to raise funds for a fitting monument. A meet-
ing was held, and J. H. Wade, H. B. Payne and Joseph
Perkins were made a committee to solicit money from the
entire nation for this purpose. It was found, however,
that the importance of the undertaking demanded a more
businesslike system than had yet been employed, and in
June, 1882, the Garfield National Monument Association
was incorporated under the laws of Ohio. It was composed
of the following prominent Ohioans: Governor Charles B,
Foster, ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes, Senator Henry
B. Payne, J. H. Wade, Joseph Perkins, T. P. Handy, D. P.
Eells, W. S. Streator, J. H. Devereux, Selah Chamberlain,
John D. Rockfeller, John Hay, and J. H. Rhodes." {Ibid.
p. 453.)
" Another event directly connected with municipal Cleve-
land, but of a far less pleasing character than the opening
of this great thoroughfare, occurred in the fall of the same
year — 1888. This was the defalcation and flight of Thomas
Axworthy, city treasurer. Axworthy's property in Cleve-
land was found to be good for about $155,000. This left
some $125,000, which the treasurer's bondsmen made good.
These bondsmen were Selah Chamberlain, T. P. Handy,
James F. Clark, J. H. Wade, H. B. Payne, W. J. Gordon,
and John Tod. Cleveland has been enriched at various
times by the magnificent benefactions of her worthy men,
374 The Wade Genealogy.
and the deeds of Leonard Case, J. H. Wade, John D. Rock-
feller, W. J. Gordon, Amasa Stone and others," i^Ibid.
p. 479.)
Truly Jeptha Homer Wade has left his greatest monu.
ment in his life and good deeds in the city of his adoption.
But most fittingly the memory of his deeds has been enshrin-
ed in a classic Greek temple in Lake View Cemetery, Cleve-
land, Ohio. This monument, erected by his grandson,
Jeptha Homer Wade, and presented to the cemetery for
proper use, has been appropriately and thus described : —
"This memorial chapel, situated in Lake View Cemetery,
Cleveland, Ohio, is built of light Barre granite, from the
designs of Messrs. Hubbell & Benes, and is classic in all
its details. The portico, arranged to form a carriage
driveway, is supported by fluted Ionic columns, and the
building is surrounded by half-columns of the same order.
The chapel doors are of solid bronze, and bronze grilles
protect the vestibule. Beneath and at the rear of the
building, with an entrance from the lower drive, is the
crypt, lined with white marble and floored with mosaic.
An elevator is arranged to lower the casket from the ped-
estal in the chapel to the crypt.
"The interior of the building is ornamented with bronze,
marble, marble mosaic, glass and glass mosaics. The
decorations were designed by Mr. Louis C. Tiifany, and
executed under his direction, at the Tiffany studios in New
York. The main flooring and that of the platform at the
head of the chapel are laid with mosaic, with a border of
wave design. Around the lower walls is a wainscot of
white Georgia marble. The ceiling is of the same mate-
rial, and is divided by beams into panels bordered with an
inlay of glass mosaic.
"The title subject of the decorations of the walls at the
sides and head of the chapel, is " The Voyage of Life,"
and is a symbolic interpretation of the Biblical doctrines of
Mortality and Immortality.
"Along the side walls are panels of glass mosaic, each
eight feet in height and thirty-two feet in length, executed
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 375
from designs by Frederick Wilson. In the left hand panel
the artist has taken his theme from the Old Testament.
The picture is of a barge manned by seven rowers, sym-
bolizing the seven pillars of wisdom, and representing the
Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, David, Ezekiel, Hosea
and Micah. Above them in the barge, is a company of
figures, the symbolic meaning of which is explained in the
following lines: —
" I saw a vessel without breath of wind.
It tacked the Great Sea waters; and it bore
Tall forms, that symbols held, of many a kind.
Seven Sages labored at the bending oar;
And at their sides, along the bulwark, hung
Seven Blazoned Shields, inscribed with mystic lore.
Isaiah, who the coming union sung
Of Jew and Gentile, was their leader bold ;
From out whose lips the words like Arrows sprung ;
Sharp as a Falchion was the tale he told.
And next the bard of Sorrow rowed in tears ;
And then the seer who braved the Lion's hold.
And saw the glory of the coming years.
The Sword and Trumpet marked Ezekiel's shield,
Who sounded hope on Chebar's banks, to ears
That doubted ; Crown and Harp, on azure field,
Was David's badge ; Hosea's Scutcheon blazed
With Scourges, for his strokes the nation healed.
Behind him, Micah, on the horizon gazed
And saw the Star of Bethlehem arise.
'Twas by their strength the vessel swiftly passed
From Nile, and all its laud of mysteries.
Far seaward; many a tempest sore it dared
'Twixt Pharos and the Piers of Hercules;
From bay to bay, from isle to isle it steered,
Bright as a constellation, for on high
Above the rowers rank, their forehead reared,
Crowding from stem to stern, a Company
With trailing robe, and radiant face austere.
Some winged, some mantled close in mystery;
While rang the rower's chant in many an ear.
O'er the Great Sea, from dawn to setting day
Till all the world could read the symbols clear.
Not Argo flashing homeward on her way
Freighted with gold, in greater glory sped;
376 The Wade Genealogy.
Nor bark that brought again to Ithaca
The lost Ulysses; nor the keel that led
Great Colon to unlock the Ocean's Gate
On errand half so bright her canvas spread.
II.
" Full at the stern was Death, who one time sate
Lord of all life and steersman of the bark;
in chains he helpless sheathes his Sword of Fate.
For at the side the Priest and Scapegoat mark
The absolution that is Man's release.
And God's Will from the Urim's mirror dark
Is flashed, and henceforth on the Throne of Peace
The Fear of God is set with Tables Twain,
Whereon are writ the Statutes Ten, and these
The Law, that is but liberty, contain.
For from that Throne those ordinances stream
Like strict and saintly Guards of life's domain.
One in the Burning Eobe did Reverence seem;
Guarding the Holt Name ; while two display
The Cloud and Pillar lit with fiery gleam;
" I AM THE LoKD THY GoD; My Sabbath Day
Revere;" they cry, while she who rules the home.
Bears the Winged Heart of infants who obey.
Next to control and check the spirits that roam
From fealty of love, is Purity,
Crowned with a Lily, clean and white as foam
Of ocean ; while another, standing by,
Waves in her hand, to cure the thirst for blood.
An Olive Branch, and Scales that steadfast try
The words that pass in judgment on the good.
Next, she who would man's treasure keep from harm
Not by locked bolt, but trustful brotherhood;
With her this Key of Safety bears the palm.
Ahd that the curb upon thy passions set
Forbids thee rob another's home of calm,
Or tread in dust the marriage coronet,
The Bridle-bearing Guardian doth attest.
The last one holds a Torch, lest men forget
Cloudless to keep the chamber of the breast
From wishes foul, as fearing to offend
The eye all-seeing of the Mightiest.
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 377
III.
And on that mystic band I saw descend,
Dove-like, the Spirit ; from His Wings He shook
Wisdom, the Faculty to comprehend,
Knowledge, and Speech without or craft or crook ;
Four maidens bear their treasury complete —
The Tree of Life, the Balance, and the Book —
Resistless weapons of the Paraclete.
IV.
And others bring in sight the mysteries
Of sacrifice for erring mortals meet;
Whether the wrath Divine they would appease
With Doves, for idle faults of Ignorance;
Or with the Fleecy Victim bring release
From guilt of Wilful Sin and arrogance.
Nor was there lacking the oblation due,
That Peace might be the land's inheritance —
Twain lambs, whose crimson life blood should imbrue
The Altar. But a far more festive train
Appeared with such rare offerings as renew
The joy of Life, and banish fear and pain,
And make mankind rejoice before the Lord.
And trumpets call the people once again
To stand before their God with one accord.
Pressing with gladness to the Place divine,
And next the Place itself, where it adored
Jehovah, I beheld; for, lo! a Shrine
Set on the prow, supremely eminent,
That shone with gold and color opaline ;
There was the Volume of the Covenant,
The Ark itself, the very Mercy Seat ;
And one with garland crowned and jubilant
Of God the First Fruits of the teeming plain,
And there were Altars set, and Incense sweet
To heaven ascended, and the Lamb was slain.
And, by the Pinions of an Angel fanned.
The scented cloud rose to the heavenly fane.
And at the prow I saw Two Altars stand,
One smokeless and serene, and one that shed
Sweet savor of burnt Offering o'er the land,
And round its Unhewn Stones the Scarlet Thread
Was twined, to tell of Pardon bought with Blood;
And a Hand pointed, borne on Wings outspread.
378 The Wade Genealogy.
A Stretched Out Arm led on, across the flood,
To the dim distance, where the harbor lay,
The Promised Land of Everlasting Good.
Where types and Shadows shall have passed away.
And Lo ! Another Bark of Life floats by.
Seven oarsmen stout within it sit, arow,
With swelling thews their ashen blades to ply;
While the wheat's golden fillet binds each brow;
For with life's sweat they win the prize of bread.
Champions of might, and o'er gunwales show
The shields of saintly warriors once who bled,
In barren fields of pagan ignorance,
The seed of knowledge and of life to spread.
On buckler broad the steel-clad saint of France
Is pictured ; there shines red St. George's sign;
St. Andrew's cross for Scotland does advance;
St. Patrick's staff the vanquished serpents twine;
While the Welsh harp is on St. David's shield ;
I saw for Spain St. James's emblems shine;
For Italy, upon a verdant field,
St. Anthony emblazoned — toilers all,
Who met the brunt of toil and would not yield.
And life to them was nothing dark nor small
Nor fruitless ; 'twas a royal voyage spent
With pageantry, as of a festival ;
For o'er those rowers gleams magnificent
The stately host that is their company;
And white winged Time upon the tiller bent,
With healing skill, but wearing at his thigh
The sword that strikes the rebel to the ground;
Yet, as he steers, gray Penitence is nigh
And Hope whose harp soft music fiings around ;
While, like some shepherd mild, stands Charity
With thought for lone and lost ; and I saw crowned
Above the rest, beneath a canopy.
Bearing the palm, while on her outstretched hand
Perched like a quick-winged hawk, was Victory,
The mighty Form that did that bark command;
For God's Grace is the vessel's admiral;
And at her bidding stands a wondrous band.
Her orbed cross of gold Faith lifts o'er all;
And Prudence waits with ever open ear;
And will that ponders, halting at the call
Of parted ways, one straight, the other clear
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 379
And broad, yet leading to the gate of doom;
And Fortitude that does the sceptre bear
O'er circumstance, and Justice that will sheathe
Or draw her falchion, as may God ordain ;
These are the strong support of all who breathe.
And as my eyes this pageant did enchain
I turned to him, whose forehead, wreathed with bay,
Grew smooth and radiant as he watched the train.
" Master," I said, " what means this bright array
Of voyagers ?" Then smiling he replied :
"All, who in service hard, consume their day,
Of Christendom are Champions sanctified;
For lowliest tasks win oft the highest meed."
"And who are those assembled, side by side,
In dazzling robes with symbols hard to read,"
I asked, " like angels, issuing from heaven's gate ?"
"Nay," he replied reprovingly, " No need
Heavenward to mount to find them, whose estate
Is of the earth, in which their service lies.
These are the deeds of such who strive to wait
On human want, and human miseries.
And struggle to repair life's struggling lot."
And there I saw, like dazzling seraphs, rise
Each act of mercy that has solace wrought
For corporal want and woe ; when death is near
The Housal with its lamp and bell is brought;
The captive visited; and to her breast
As some sweet maid welcomes with tender care
The wandering dove, so houseless ones find rest
'Neath hospitable roofs ; parched lips receive
That cup of water by the Master blest ;
For naked ones does loving labor weave
Apparel, and the famished find their bread.
"With such bright ministries to those who grieve
Thus shone the ship of life, as on it sped;
And at their front seven others did appear,
So that perplexed to my sage Guide I said :
"But who are these whose face and form austere
Are yet with grace immortal dignified ?"
" Since man is formed, as Holy Writ makes clear,
Of body and of spirit," he replied,
' ' And in the spirit can affected be
With suffering and infirmity, beside
380 The Wade Genealogy.
His pangs corporeal, the ministry
Of spiritual mercies he demands.
These therefore form that heavenly company
That ever in life's common pathway stands,
With those whose life is in the spirit spent :
Whose service is not only of the hands,
But keeps the heart and intellect intent
On duty towards their fellow men : one prays
And, sweet as incense, up to heaven is sent,
The prayer for others; Patience meekly lays
Crossed hands upon her bosom, when despite
And wrong are done her; love with pardon pays
For injury, and wreathes the spear of might,
Which vengeance carries, with the olive leaf.
Yet love shall still correct and lead aright
The erring; Love shall dry the tears of grief ;
And counsel shall weigh well e'er she decide,
Nor spare to draw the sword, however lief
To pity; and when darkness mantles wide
The world, and ignorance of God is rife,
There does an angel in man's heart abide
Among the band that glorifies our life,
To teach the blind and ignorant their way."
He paused, and then as one, whose heart, at strife
With suffering, had for many a bitter year
Walked with this shining escort through the dark.
He pointed, silent, to the long array
That nearer to the prow of that swift bark
Were clustered. There Philosophy, I saw
Crowned queen, and on a tablet did she mark
The circle of her thought, that could not draw
Within its line the threefold mystery
Of Godhead. Penance, for the broken law
Bleading beneath a thorny crown, was by.
And Baptism, in symbol meet, was plain
Enameled on an ensign lifted high;
There, never is the water poured in vain
From out the Baptist's shell, but floats the Dove
O'er river fount, or consecrated fane.
Hard by stand Praise, who lifts her hand in love;
And Gratitude that lights her lamp, and gives
The treasures dear that her affection prove.
But mightier than that Holy Grail that lives
In legend, mightier than those forms of grace.
i
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 381
Than all good deeds of man that love contrives,
Here on this hurrying ship our Lord would place
The towering angel of that Sacrament
Where man with God converses face to face,
Rounding his life with infinite content.
Over the panel of the Old Law, wrought in mosiac, in
gold letters on a white background, are the following pas-
sages: "Behold I come quickly; hold that fast which thou
hast, that no man take thy crown; fear ye not, stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord, for the Grace of God,
that bringeth salvation, hath appeared to all men and hath
brought life and immortality to light. It is given unto
you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. To
live is Christ and to die is gain. Behold the tabernacle of
God is with men and He will dwell with them and God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall
be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain, for the former things are
passed away. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and
the ending, saith the Lord, which is, which was, and which
is to come, the Almighty."
Over the panel of the New Law, wrought in like man-
ner, is the following passage: "The former things are
passed away and He that sat upon the throne said :
Behold I make all things new, and He said unto me:
Write, for these words are true and faithful, and
He said unto me: It is done. I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that
is athirst, of the fountain of the water of life freely;
he that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will
be his God, and he shall be my son. The Lord God
of the Holy Prophets sent His angel to shew unto His
servants the things which must shortly be done. I am
Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and
the last. Blessed are they that do His commandments,
that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter
in through the gates into the City."
382 The Wade Genealogy.
At the head of the chapel, on the right and left, are
panels of glass mosaic, with inscriptions in white letters
on a gold background. The one at the left contains the
following: "For I delivered unto you first of all that
which I also received. How that Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and
that He rose again the third day according to the Scrip-
tures, and that He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve,
after that He was seen of above five hundred brethren at
once, of whom the greater part remain unto this present,
but some are fallen asleep; after that He was seen of
James, then of all the Apostles, and last of all He was seen
of me also, as of one born out of due time: For I am the
least of the Apostles that am not meet to be called an Apos-
tle, because I persecuted the Church of God."
The panel on the right contains the following:
"But now is God risen from the dead, and become the
first fruits of them who slept: for since by man came death,
by man came also the resurrection of the dead: for as in
Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive: I
am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord; he that
believeth in Me though he were dead yet shall live, and who-
soever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die: I know
that my Redeemer liveth and that He shall stand at the lat-
ter day upon the earth, and though after my skin, worms
destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I
shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold and not
another."
Between these panels is a large window, representing
the consumm.ation of the Divine promise, in the passing
of the soul from the earthly abode to the heavenly
home. The window, which was designed by Mr. Tiffany,
shows, in the lower portion, an open tomb in a dark fore-
ground, typifying the sorrows of life that end in death.
About it, a luxuriant growth of poppies, the emblem of
sleep, and lilies, a symbol of resurrection, voice the hope
in immortality that extends beyond the grave. Here the
motive of the design changes, marking the departure from
Wade of New Jersey and Ohio. 383
the earthly to the heavenly, from the material to the spir-
itual. The background of the lower half of the circle is
treated to represent the sea of crystal described in the
Apocalyptic vision as flowing before the throne of heaven.
Rising from it is a bank of fleecy clouds, dividing the sea
from the firmament. Rising from the clouds, in the form
of a cross, is a flight of ascending doves, emblematic of the
resurrection and the passing upward of the soul to that
peace which the world cannot give. Over this is the figure
of the Saviour, surrounded by the angelic hosts of heaven.
Above this is a rainbow, bright in glory, signifying the
victory over the grave, and the futility of the sting of
death."
A cultured and highly educated member of this family
writes: "I doubt if there is a more beautiful small piece
of architecture in America than the little Greek temple
which surmounts the vault. The best thought of all is,
that the man remembered thus was amply worthy of all
that has been or can be done."
1621. Abbey J. Wade (daughter of Charles), born June 25,
1843, died July 18, 1878.
Married: — Wm. H. Mains of Sparta, N. J., Decem-
ber 23, 1873.
Issue : —
2183. Mary E. Mains, b. Aug. 16, 1867; d. Dec. 8, 1877.
2184. Vida J. Mains, b. July 24, 1869.
2185. Theophilus W. Mains, b. March 27, 1871; d. July 16,
1871.
2186. Edith Mains, b. June 30, 1875.
1623. Lydia E. Wade (daughter of Charles), born Feb-
ruary 10, 1851; died January 1, 1879.
Married : — John V. Durling of Sparta, N. J., Decem-
ber 31, 1873.
Issue : —
2187. Chas. Wade Durling, b. Nov. 15, 1374.
2188. Mary J. Durling, b. Aug. 12, 1876.
384
The Wa.de Genealogy,
1641. Morris Wade (son of Serein), born November 23,
1820; died September 15, 1880.
Married : — Jane (?) Roe of Branchville, N. J,, August
9, 1845.
Issue : —
2189. Hattie R. Wade, b. May 22, 1846, at Sparta, N . J. ; d.
Aug. 80, 1876, at Hackettstown.
2190. Charles N. Wade, b. Jan. 31, 1854. at Hackettstown.
2191. Francis E. Wade, b. March 19, 1858, at Hackettstown.
1642. Simon Wade (son of Serein), born December 3,
1822; did not marry; living in 1881 in Belvidere,
N.J.
1643. Charles Wade (son of Searing), born October 24,
1827, at Sparta, N. J.,; died at Belvidere, N. J.,
June 20, 1867.
Married : — Maria C. Whitaker.
Issue : —
2192. Emma E. Wade, b. Dec. 23, 1855.
2193. Charles E. Wade, b. Oct. 11, 1859.
1644. Abby Jane Wade (daughter of Searing), born July
25, 1817 at Sparta, N. J. ; died December 5, 1845
at Moingona, Boone County, Iowa. '
Married : — February 25, 1835, Zophar Halsey. He
was born July 17, 1811, at Blooming Grove, N. Y. ;
died April 12, 1872, at Sparta, N. J.
Issue : —
2194. Henrietta Halsey, b. Sept. 9, 1836; m. Wm. Blair;
resided at Moingona, Iowa.
2195. Sarin W. Halsev, b. April 20, 1840; d. April 6, 1866.
2196. Sarah Ophelia Halsey, b. Aug. 3, 1843; d. Nov. 10^
1866.
Married: — II, Sarah Jane Conklin, September 15»
1848.
(See the Halsey Genealogy [1895] p. 140.)
1646. John S. Wade (son of Stephen).
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